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Poems

Howie Good “Skull City”

Howie Good Skull City The emptiness is real, the starting point, how it all feels, the mother of all things, a mule, the amoeba, an expanse of trees in the distance, what the shade is like under there, only a few colors, the only thing left, a piece of music so familiar I could play […]

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Howie Good “The War Against My Great-Grandparents”

Howie Good The War Against My Great-Grandparents  You closed your eyes to it, and closed your mind to it, ignored what was grabbing for them with big, meaty hands, and they ended up in the ovens, but that’s why we need beauty, fields that shimmer in the wind and do it like it means everything. […]

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Joe Cottonwood “Physics”

Joe Cottonwood Physics  Today I jogged two and a half miles with my son, read a book about Hiroshima, watched a football game on television (somebody won, somebody lost), ate a good dinner, put the kids to bed, went to a party, soaked in a hot tub, got stoned, walked home, went to bed, and […]

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David James “Gone”

David James Gone My friend, you can’t hide behind a broken dream because the gardenia’s hint that fills your air with her perfumed scent will remain residue and thoughts of her on the stairs up to your place that first time will make you recall your only bath together, how you kissed toothpaste foam from […]

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Meg Hansen “Art Crime/Graffiti”

Meg Hansen Art Crime/Graffiti What have you scribbled with permanent ink on my shadow? Meg Hansen is a locally syndicated Vermont-based columnist and Dartmouth College alumna. My essays and poetry have been published in Flow Journal, Vishwa, and Thinking Gender.

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