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Judy Suite (Six Visual Poems) by Chris Gavaler

July 9, 2020September 18, 2020 - Leave a Comment

Artistic statement: “Judy Suite” is a sequence of graphic requiems recounting my mother’s struggle with Alzheimer’s. Chris Gavaler is an associate professor of English at W&L University, where he serves …

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Putting Out What You Might Put Away

May 16, 2020May 16, 2020 - 1 Comment

Putting Out What You Might Put Away A crib and changing table are quietlydismantled but all the socks are paired confetti,and the hats and the layettes grown dustyin the drawers, …

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panic attack poem
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Panic Attack

January 27, 2020January 26, 2020 - Leave a Comment

It starts out quiet.Terror muffles my earsWords, black smudgesHeartbeat faster and fasterAir thinner and thinner. Thoughts as fish in a river,Classmates becoming blobs of colorsForced into captivity,I exit the room. …

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“Why can’t you sleep?”

January 6, 2020January 3, 2020 - Leave a Comment

There are blossoms in my chest Rolling off my breasts, feathering out from my sternum, violet, emerald, scarlet petals A garden of wildflowers is inside me Zara Hanif is a …

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moon face by cindy pereira
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MOONFACE by Cindy Pereira

November 19, 2019December 12, 2019 - Leave a Comment

Resident writes feels like lower back is a clenched fist. Resident writes patient’s vision is blurred but only in one eye the right. Not blurred but like a cheesecloth has …

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Sick Woman’s Self Portrait by Sara Tilley

September 22, 2019September 30, 2019 - Leave a Comment

I am the dead mouse perfect and stiff, no longer than your thumb. I am the cat, satisfied with killing for its own sake. I am not hungry for blood. …

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instruction on ritual for simplifying your life
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Instruction on a Ritual for Simplifying Your Life

June 10, 2019June 7, 2019 - Leave a Comment

The first step is defining the place. It must be your living room. You must live alone. Time is not inconsequential. Do it at night, after the bars have closed, …

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Two Poems by Christian J. Collier

March 31, 2019March 31, 2019 - Leave a Comment

Admission One day, while walking down the long, white hallway at my job, the tide overtook me & I broke down crying in front of one of my co-workers, the …

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on being mysteriously chronic
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On Being Mysteriously Chronic by Jennifer Stitt

March 26, 2019March 26, 2019 - Leave a Comment

Jennifer Stitt is a poet as well as a historian of modern American thought, culture, and politics. She earned a B.A. and M.A. in history from the University of Alabama …

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For the Doctors Who Don’t Know How To Find Your Body From Here

January 8, 2019January 13, 2019 - Leave a Comment

By Rob Cook Each brick of the hospital attacks each brick next to it. The fighting itself casts a shadethat lengthens over the parking lot,the incurable, pampered vehicles. The sky, …

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