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THREE POEMS by Caroline M. Mar
THE RAY it lay there, flopping, fish-out-of-water and my heart trembled on the curb the usual fisherman’s talesa woman onlooker upset, that’s animal cruelty flapping in air, fingers hooked to its spiracles as its mouth gaped and shut
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TWO POEMS by Brian Tierney
AUTOPSY OF A SHADOW The letters in the cabinet I carved for a girl who gave me the sea in bits glass bits frosted white near the vase under shadows that lifted from the portrait each evening at five sometimes seven by the East- facing window swaddled baby oil painting one eye peeled white like…
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MORNING ABLUTION by Khaty Xiong
Salt heavy—my oxen skin overrun & ringing Sunday plum—bodies whetted & sold in the East— fruits without flowers—the winter prostitute steel plowed—tender how she glows as the ocean would have me losing ear & piece— passage through veil—each tooth in place for feast…
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