“the protein slapped inside thin elastic pink tracts/ a forgotten closet in her skin tucked into flesh/ in every organ cancerous/ her fetal cells wait/ her skin behind her breast scratched ribs”
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by Michael Simms
“When the young man wearing a yarmulke/ Asks Excuse me sir are you Jewish?/ I want to say yes/ I’ve studied history and know/ Something about suffering,/ But that’s not what he means.”
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by Mehrnaz Tiv
“She flows like petals, just as soft and as sweet,/Drowning these western slopes in lush tonics of springtime./June she blooms, then in august she glows./ The pittsburgh sun sticks like jasmine honey.”
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by Lindsay Surmacz
“Your strength is what made you The Great One./ Not the might that scarred the sky three thousand times,/ but the will that forged broomsticks and soup cans/ into silver scepters and golden gloves.”
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by anaïs peterson
“2. the notable absence of acute danger/
a. soft orange evening light and faded blue couch covers/
b. mass produced lemon bars over dusted with powdered sugar that are somehow still delicious”
by Gail Langstroth
“March winds vex pine boughs/forsythia says we love you, air; /we love you/ my shadow claws cement’s/ cache”
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