Image Credit: Dev Murphy My mother called me last week to tell me she had dreamed of her sister Christy’s trip to the hospital before it happened. Minor illness.…
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You sit up straight in the hard plastic chairs in the cold conference room waiting to meet your potential new foster daughter, absently rubbing your knuckles raw with your thumb.…
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if i told you this story, how culturally illiterate would you think i am? * panic had come spurting out and i was looking for a plug to…
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My girlfriend and I were walking back to my place from Target, whose red, illuminated sign had become my new moon, when I saw the Dumpster sitting behind the Cineplex…
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Image Credit: Mercedes Floresislas-Medina “I’m a therapist. I’m a psychotherapist. I’m a mental health professional. Repeat. And breathe. Don’t forget to breathe. Breathe.” I’m frazzled by the lack of sleep…
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* * * Come sit and empty your pockets, child, and let us count what we’ve got. We can sort it this way: for me, love counts. And cancer counts.…
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Last night, I walked towards the street of the home where we used to live. I got as far as the curb across from our stoop, then had to sit…
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Need Not I need not fly I fold my wings I bow my head I wait for things I need not feel you Everywhere I need not breathe In so…
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1976: This cursed bloodline begat me. Cries at cold air. The beginnings of pain. 1979: Health freak mother teaches me that soda pop and the red cherries on top of…
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Image Credit: Nick Fewings Just before Christmas in 2006, I met my one true love in the most unlikely, modern way. My best buddy Rae had helped me onto…
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My Girl’s Green Jacket by Mary Meriam Headmistress Press, 2018 108 pages / Headmistress Every time one attempts to categorize or pigeonhole Mary Meriam’s poetry, one comes up against “it…
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Baby, I Don’t Care by Chelsey Minnis Wave Books, 2018 272 pages / Wave The question is endlessly familiar to poetry but often less prevalent in the work of poet Chelsey…
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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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Creative Nonfiction / EssayFeaturedAll My Best Words Were Hers: A Literacy Narrative on Ursula K. Le Guin
The messages stream in, from friends, acquaintances, strangers. “Thought of you when I heard the news.” I am grateful for their thoughtfulness and ashamed at the attention. The well wishes…
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