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“To Have and To Want” by Sophie Mulgrew

“My heart is a tropical ocean storm. Its tides fold and wrinkle like my bedsheets once…
“bear/bare” by Jamie Cattanach

“If you could imagine yourself an animal, what creature or beast would you be?”
“Swerve” by Laurie Blauner

“I’m praying in the form of shifting toward something. But without repenting or knowing what it…
“Summer Rain” by Joan Mazza

“After July’s heat wave now a steady rain.”
“The Understanding” by Lana Citron

‘Say we found it together… we found it today… say it.’
“are the stars you see at night already dead?” by Lorelei Bacht

the pain you baked into my bones is astronomical.
“Do not think of those who have died as Dead; rather, they are Alive and with their Lord” by Isra Cheema

They are you. You are them. Say their names.
“Before Fall Semester” by Ariya Mamun

“It was the last truly hot day of the summer. It was also the last day…
“Lonnie T” by Michael Cox

“I’m going to see Lonnie.”
“Have It Your Way” by Neil Connelly

A Depression-era mother, my Grandma Qualter brought me out to eat only on rare occasions.