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GREY PASSAGES • by John Lander
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I don’t know the names of plants which makes it difficult to describe scenes encountered outside: glistened boughs and wet leaf confetti slight fair afternoons renewed after deluge; grassy paths can’t amply portray a delicate conflict amid patches of blue and sandy-blonde strands. I don’t know the names of birds so the best I can [...]
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HAIR WASHED IN BEER • by Maire Morrissey-Cummins 8 Comments
My mother was gentle, as she washed my hair in beer, rolled it in curlers for Sunday best. It was summer, she sat on the windowsill chatted with the neighbours. She wore her rose lipstick smile, her grey dress with pink polka dots and crisp white collar. She was all things beautiful. I [...]
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IN THE SHADOW OF THE MOON • by Ali McHenry 6 Comments
Houston, home of the misquote, well-acquainted with the concept of ‘a problem’. April 19th 2011. School canteen, Betsy Ross Elementary. Six year old reaches hand into pocket. Not a Tonka truck. Nor even a mobile phone. A loaded gun clatters to the floor. Lockdown. Today there will be no Show and Tell. [...]
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UNDERCOVER • by Marie Therese Gass 4 Comments
Nobody says anything when I tell them I’ve already had four cancers. I pause. In the silence they focus elsewhere, no doubt ruminating about what to make for dinner or when to walk the dog. At night I awake and realize their faces mirror my child’s Is it catching? Marie Therese [...]
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HIBERNATION • by Carol Ayer 2 Comments
Every winter I hibernate in grief Curl up tight and remember you I used to welcome January We’d channel the warmth of hot drinks and admire the distant mountains. But you were alive then and comfort was still achievable. Now winter looms large like those snow-capped peaks. The nights are long, but the [...]
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IN BATTLE • by Eric Dovigi 4 Comments
in a battle, you catch a breath in a cloud of dust you run toward a fear you find a bullet in a basket and then you come home and watch movies and read books and pretend you understand what it was all about. to hold a life in your fingers– it feels like [...]
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CONNECTION • by Allison Davies 3 Comments
In the beginning there was a word I did not understand. It waited round corners, tricked me, tipped me up, ran away laughing. I have not seen it since, until today, I caught a glimpse. Smoke and your face in a mirror. Allison Davies has what her mother describes as an ‘actor’s [...]
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GESUNDHEIT • by anonymous No Comments
It isn’t me, it’s the weather, the woman says; she blows her nose on nothing. Her nail polish is rubbed, and her hair hangs in strands of bad penmanship; I think about these things when I see women I’ve never seen before. Tomorrow, she’ll be spare tires lying around in the front yard of my [...]
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LOUDER THAN WORDS • by Sue Morgan 7 Comments
The world is full of brave men like the soldier at the gas-station who held his bloodied hand before him, silently, as though beseeching me to tend his wound. I lifted my bag for the first-aid box. Bandages in Tupperware. He smiled at me. A slow smile which said ‘You’d make a good wife.’ [...]
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BELIEVER’S GROUND • by James Graham 6 Comments
A faint continuous hiss pervades all space. Expansion of the universe, that’s all they say it is. Walking home tonight I cup my hand like a seashell and make believe an unbelievable breath. Almost too far from childhood for the naked memory to see with a wishing gesture at the stars I make [...]
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