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An Exercise in Staring at the Ceiling and Contemplating Divorce

An Exercise in Staring at the Ceiling and Contemplating Divorce P.L. Sanchez __________ Focus on the fan. Watch the blades, spinning in circles. They want us to believe they’re an army. Smart. We know it’s a covert operation, a five-blade job. Those blades can spin, yes, they can. Focus on…

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Two Poems by Jen Karetnick

Jen Karetnick __________ Marching Band Perp Walk You never forget the way you’re taught to tread: Gaze straight ahead. Limbs on alert. Feet barely lifted, a watery shuffle. Toe to heel, toe to heel, a needle through the arch, threading the seams of the path in front of you like…

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Two Poems by William Brown

William Brown __________ Monarchs I wanted to dust their beating wings, douse them in alcohol, press into paper, onto toothpicks stabbed in foam. But when I arrive, plastic bag tied to a stick, they ignite the hush of alfalfa, pillage the flower’s throats like boys back home who suck the…

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