Deep in the recesses of our refrigerator is a cheap gallon-size plastic container emblazoned with an Italian tricolor crest and labeled “Caputo 00 flour”. You wouldn’t give it a second…
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* * * Son as Hawk look up, ma, ________________i am ________without edge or boundaries ma_____________i fly ________lift and rise with the currents ________________wave after wave this is my forever…
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Wiki of Infinite Sorrows by Matthew Burnside Kernpunkt Press, January 2021 Matthew Burnside’s Wiki of Infinite Sorrows very well might be the sort of text for which the less…
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I was in the room the day my mom found out she had cancer. Sometimes I wish I hadn’t been, but I’m not sure if I would have believed it…
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A crow has been calling in the front yard since the sun rose. It’s the beginning of November and my left breast feels heavy. I lift it and the pressure…
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1: It Wouldn’t Be Macramé On March 18th, I thought I had the stomach flu. We were early enough in the pandemic to be aware of the virus –…
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* * * Winged Gods My steps were still in Pangea, Prints of knuckle and knee But I dreamt of flight As you flapped from branch to branch. When sand…
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Throughout most of my life I have sung, mostly sacred music in choruses, and some opera. Singing has offered the opportunity to convert emotion into harmony, a warm, joyous energy.…
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Hit Points: An Anthology of Video Game Poetry eds. Aaron Kent & Matthew Haigh Broken Sleep Books, May 2021 Red cover variant: Bookshop / B&N / Amazon 102 pages –…
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My grandmother who, according to everyone in the family didn’t understand nor speak English, would gingerly announce, “Olga is bad, very bad.” Years prior, when grandmother visited us in the…
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“Do you think I haven’t seen what you just did?” My grandma said as I jumped, startled by her voice. I tried to ignore her as she approached the table,…
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WOVEN is an Entropy series and dedicated safe space for essays by persons who engage with #MeToo, sexual assault and harassment, and #DomesticViolence, as well as their intersections with mental…
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The Partridge Family — a real (fake) musical act with a real (fake) tour bus — had an actual hit record in 1970 with I Think I Love You, and fifty one years later…
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* * * Corvus The hawk I hoped to see has, in its approach, diminished to a crow pecking the ground. Just a crow, the kind found wherever I’ve lived,…
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