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Rain for Days by Diane Holland published in Crab Orchard Review And the sky closed, but now the TV weather radar screen shows the few...

Gaudy by Cassy Dorff published in Rust+Moth, Winter 2021 The bird book called him America’s most gaudy bird. Some said the king cakes in...

May and the Poets by Leigh Hunt There is May in books forever; May will part from Spenser never; May's in Milton, May's in Prior, May's...

Assisted Living by J. Allyn Rosser published in The Atlantic They sit at tables close enough around To nudge, reach for salt, and chat...

Dictionary Poem by Jill McDonough published in The Threepenny Review I love teaching people how to use a dictionary, watch them get...

Pluto by Grace Li published in Crazyhorse Online I’m sorry. It was a minor matter. All the ways that I was here and the ways I wasn’t. A...

The Easter Flower by Claude McKay Far from this foreign Easter damp and chilly My soul steals to a pear-shaped plot of ground, Where...

For Calling the Spirit Back From Wandering the Earth In Its Human Feet by Joy Harjo from Conflict Resolution From Holy Beings (W. W....

April by Linda Pastan A whole new freshman class of leaves has arrived on the dark twisted branches we call our woods, turning green...

published in her book, Code (Black Lawrence Press, 2020) Caves are not caves; they are thresholds into other worlds. We enter, blink into...

Gnats published in The Normal School, 2015 I can't tell why I think the dried corncobs in the gravel and the mattress under the tree were...

published in her book, The Dead Behind Us (1986, Norton) I learned to be honest the way I learned to swim dropped into the inevitable my...

published in Cider Press Review Hunger by Dianne Stepp after In Memory’s Kitchen: A Legacy from the Women of Terezin They dream of yeast...

published in her book, Drowning in the Floating World (Press 53, 2020) That First Night, the Hospital was the only thing left standing....

Chromesthesia by Kelly R. Samuels published in Summerset Review Your voice, singing, calls up green, green of the grasses bent on that...

anyone lived in a pretty how town (with up so floating many bells down) spring summer autumn winter he sang his didn't he danced his did....

Some Assembly May Be Required by Laura LeHew published in The Fem 2016 you are in denial your eyes are hyacinth red you page through your...

The Colonel by Carolyn Forché published in her 1981 book, The Country Between Us What you have heard is true. I was in his house. His...

Quaker Oats by Rita Dove The grain elevators have stood empty for years. They used to feed an entire nation of children. Hunched in red...

Foal by Lois P. Jones published in The Lascaux Review In your next life you will be birthed in needles of hoarfrost, your eyes still in...