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...Jackie Braje Jackie Braje I cannot leave my house I cannot leave my house for the white peacocks have formed a coalition on the front lawn and where in the four corners of daylight have I not already been, anyhow? They make a trail of feathers to a copper river some few towns away and you unaware...

...Kelly Forsythe © 2011 Kelly Forsythe 2011 Kelly Forsythe Leaving Pittsburgh in June The petal burns. Pollen leaves a slant of gold, my wrist heats up with rash. It tore up my arm. When I left you brought flowers to the airport. I took all...

...Gene Albamonte Gene Albamonte In Which All That Is Familiar Leaves Us Jupiter is gone. Not a person named Jupiter or a pet named Jupiter or this place the city of Jupiter, Florida. The actual planet. Gone. This happens at 9:23 p.m., while Megan eats at Town Diner. On the TV hung to the wall...

... as the art of persuading people—at the levels of perception and sensibility as well as reason—that they are Earthlings. Her current project considers the possibility that a kind of materialism informs Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass . Bennett’s previous monographs include Unthinking Faith and Enlightenment...

...Jennie Lightweis-Goff Within days of the breach of the levees in New Orleans, a second man-made disaster—the “recovery” efforts—began to transform the city’s institutions, leaving many urban partisans afraid that New Orleans would be rebuilt along the model of other, more expensive, less habitable...

..., however, is ultimately ambivalent because it depends on his position as an artist-critic; thus, rather than endorsing an alternative method, the essay, following Coetzee's imperative to “speak without authority,” simply leaves the question provocatively open. © 2011 Virginia Tech 2011 Works Cited...

...Forester McClatchey [email protected] © 2023 Forester McClatchey 2023 Forester McClatchey Coffee Grounds When the boy begins to pee incessantly leaving class, leaving dugouts, leaving bed black mold flourishes in the toilet. He grows weak and thin, familiar with the exact...

..., the loss of words. A person would still behave like one would expect a person to behave. Would live indoors. Would cook food, drink water from glasses. But inevitably the person would drift outdoors. Would find that call of the sun too strong. A person would leave. Who knows what was going through the mind...

...James Braun Copyright © 2020 James Braun 2020 James Braun Cardboard Castle Too early our daddy leave our farmy farm, driving to town in his Fix Em Up Truck to work on people, not for thems, he always say, on thems. Reason our daddy so good at being Surgeon Man? Cause he used to work at IKEA...

.... Rain. I put on my coat, leave the house and drive to work. My hair is wet, and as I drive rainwater trickles down my neck because I couldn t nd my umbrella and when I left the house I had to run through the rain to get to my car because it was parked down the road because another car had parked...

.... Self-Portrait as a Chair in an Empty Poem. 3. Self-Portrait as a Chair in a Room in an Empty Poem (Left on a Chair in a Room, Alone in a Poem). 4. Why Hath You Left Me on a Chair, Poem? 5. Leave Me Alone, Charlotte Brontë. 6. I Never Loved Me, Either. 7. Ceci N’est Pas...

... emerges in one postcard only over time, like an eye softens to darkness. This is the barbeque we had last night my picture is to the left with a cross over it Your son Joe Southern trees bear strange fruit Blood on the leaves and blood at the root Though the day smoldered, he must have...

.... Emir is Rizo’s uncle, and they live together. I write down what my dad needs on a piece of paper. I don’t want to bring the wrong thing and go again. I go to leave, but he tells me to wait. He peers through a small bathroom window. “Still snowing,” he says, and I nod. “Go upstairs...

...Jim Whiteside © 2015 Jim Whiteside 2015 Jim Whiteside Scenes 1. The boy leaves you alone in the hotel.       He closes the door, and by the time it latches, he can hear you crying. You’re already feeling sick. This is the version of the story...

... this tree, suck the lemons and all the sweetly tart juices dry. They had a lready set up camp beneath the leaves. That s how they start out. At first, just lots of walking, marching, but I knew better. When I wasn t watching, they were burrowing into the yellow rinds, lapping up the tangy liquid. Even...

...Helen Palmer © 2017 Helen Palmer 2017 Helen Palmer Break Separating the surfaces of the upturned pyramid are its glass walls. Waves are refracted as they enter and leave the prism. The atrium refracts the most, causing superior waves. Left atrium...

...Ellyn Lichvar © 2015 Ellyn Lichvar 2015 Ellyn Lichvar Epidural My legs feel like someone else’s. Touching my knee is like touching an island on a map. How am I supposed to know when he is leaving me? I am supposed to control it, I think...

...John Hazard [email protected] © 2023 John Hazard 2023 John Hazard Mammals, Late November Science promised a blue sky, but it s locked up somewhere, four days now, prisoner in a far cave. The squirrels and I shuffle through town, making leaves make noise: Whisk whisk go the dry, cold leaves...

...Jaydn DeWald © 2013 Jaydn DeWald 2013 Jaydn DeWald Vigil after Radmila Lazić Spring belated, and I am much too old To see, in the black pool, our daughter Holding her naked doll. Fragile leaves In her unspooling hair. Algae-globbed —​ Her lidless eyes...

... into confused light with the matted grasses and blackened leaves below the field of ice where I blow on cold coals in a pit of ash and bone. Let it come from the calcium veins branching under graveyards, be root-sucked into breathing green, feed, flower this brain to see...