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Dale Wisely

Ken Poyner “Economic Mobility”

Ken Poyner Economic Mobility In a few years, with my own Capitalist endeavors spent and the last of my energy but a sliver of silver on a stray pond bottom, I could be redirected, wind up as some minor character on the dark side, a voice-over of myself, bent and steady and your very fine […]

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Ken Poyner “Lot at Dinner”

Ken Poyner Lot at Dinner The place setting is for one, and with each month of sustenance I could tell you how progress like wool to be spun, Is made in salt. Ken Poyner has long since lost track of his youth, but is becoming familiar with his old age.  

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Rachel Chen “Forecast”

Rachel Chen Forecast After my parents began falling out of love, I spent car rides imprinting my chin on the back window pane as rivets of rain marched determinedly, single-mindedly, downwards, a faint, dissonant harmony drowned out by the gentle slosh of our tires slicing across highways, rolling ceaselessly onwards. Rachel Chen spends most of […]

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Wendy Cobourne “Swimming to Cambodia”

Wendy Cobourne Swimming to Cambodia I struggle to escape the seductive blurry pull of the undertow, to surface and shiver until I feel my skin is enough. Wendy Cobourne is a journalist and college writing tutor whose poems and short stories have appeared in a variety of literary journals.  

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Sam Norman “A Hard Rain”

Sam Norman A Hard Rain When the rain comes down hard, like that night in December, and Teri groans in her sleep while I hold her hand and stroke her arm, and thunder crashes, seemingly just outside our bedroom window, I count the time from the flash to the thunder and pray in the silence […]

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