Gail Tirone Nesting Dolls Someone once gave me a set of wooden nesting dolls from Russia which I stood side by side, a line of six pretty girls with stylized smiles, rigidly round, each waiting to be filled by the next – like young girls everywhere awaiting fulfillment of themselves by others, of themselves by […]
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Elizabeth Fevyer Lemons Think about a cut lemon for long enough, my therapist says, and you’ll salivate, so I imagine your cheekin the palm of my handand wait for the death to drain out of me. Elizabeth Fevyer lives in […]
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Ryan Brennan Slightly Off to the East I can hear the sounds of an owl Rising up through the pines Shaped like rings of smoke Floating from my grandad’s lips. Ryan Brennan is a poet living in the Catskill Mountains who writes poems his mother will read.
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Ryan Brennan To Whoever Moves in Next We’ll leave our ghosts In the garden And our love In the sunlight That filters Through the Kitchen. Ryan Brennan is a poet living in the Catskill Mountains who writes poems his mother will read.
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Ryan Brennan This Morning Against a blank iron fitted sky A small bird began whistling With cheeks full of sunlight. Ryan Brennan is a poet living in the Catskill Mountains who writes poems his mother will read.
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