The exegesis of all outside, on the porch Us three in faith agreed life would end in fire, For we began in water—piecing together pieces Of the book we…
Fog or a Cloud
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Fog or a Cloud: Gallery
by Guest Contributor December 4, 2019displayed in a grid of squares she is saturated, oblique, a shape bearing no relationship to the smell of a ham sandwich or the night her uncles beat…
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Fog or a Cloud: from The Strange History of Jenny and the Wisp
by Guest Contributor December 2, 2019IS TONAL jump over is Dutch for here is English over there sentences line the water hold them don’t let go clamber onto the rocks over here the…
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Fog or a Cloud: THE SCHOLAR — A Korean adoptee returns
by Rachel Rostad November 27, 2019I. I wanted to find it. I memorized the route to grandfather’s house. On the street, I loosed my six-year-old self. I watched her gather her childhood like a…
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Fog or a Cloud: The Three Most Common Clouds Are
by Guest Contributor November 25, 2019Cumulus: You can’t see the sun — its watery glow tumbles from bellies of clouds and pools on a slice of blacktop. You’re there with your friends, peeling pieces…
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Fog or a Cloud: Hawaii
by Guest Contributor November 20, 2019Everything I know of us was contained in a photograph with small cursive, curled edges and yellows imbalanced. A baby and an old woman. Not frail, no—she was all…
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Fog or a Cloud: Two Pieces
by Koss November 18, 2019Love Song for My Lemon Hare Green trees, sap green—streaming the interstate and hemming the fields, ladled as if from Constable’s brush, from Manchester to Nantwich, muted, yet golden,…
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Fog or a Cloud: Wrecked Denver
by Guest Contributor November 13, 2019Also she appeared to be floating, breathing a kind of game or to make sense of the gravy- pond plates, the castaway serviettes dolphin-finned or carpet coral, barnacles, moats?…
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Fog or a Cloud: HARD SHELLS
by Guest Contributor November 11, 2019I. There was the squirrel my mom killed while in Colorado with my dad, before my brother and I were born. She slowed down to let it cross the…
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Fog or a Cloud: Two Poems
by Michele Glazer November 6, 2019Trumpet vine takes root among incipient tomato deepunder and around all obstacles it presses on through packed crowded nesses—I just I imagine a dry clicking—it must be…
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Fog or a Cloud: Hybrid Micros
by Guest Contributor November 4, 2019The moon is far away, but still it sways the tides Never look at the black sun, my grandmother tells my mother. My mother is a child, and…
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Fog or a Cloud: The Greatest Joy
by Guest Contributor October 30, 2019The reindeer stepped out of the box. Purple tinsel swayed from its antlers and a collar of sleigh bells jingled around its neck. “What language do you speak?”…
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Fog or a Cloud: Bed
by Guest Contributor October 28, 2019In the bed, my leg a hill, when I sit up it redistributes itself. I cross: the skin-surface rippled, wind on a sea sky-lit. When did I get these…
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Fog or a Cloud: The Frame of Formal Opens
by Guest Contributor October 21, 2019Part 1: Figures, Forms Tessa said that whenever anyone spoke to her, she saw what they said. Objects, pieces of speech appeared. She would wave her hand in…