12 Jan Over the Skyway by Theresa Wyatt

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I sing you, Great Lake, carved out of glacier ice
with your fantastical moods of storm seiche
and lightning flashes.

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05 Jan My Heart is a Lakeside City in January by Rachel Valente

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My heart is the big fish, the silver hook, and the
hands that fight to reel it in, all at once.

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29 Dec Beautiful Dead by Paul T. Hogan

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You see these landscapes wrong. Stripped
back to bone and outline – there is joy here.

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22 Dec love, a context — Edric Mesmer

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requires no coordinates— no crust of graphic—

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15 Dec I Am From by Namita Acharya

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I am from O-Cel-O sponges,
from Lemon Pledge and Lipton’s Green Label tea.
From quick anger, doormat women
Hot and cold, like summer rain on hot asphalt.

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08 Dec The End of My Life as an Aspiring Genius by Rachelle Toarmino

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This is the end of my life as an aspiring genius
It is also true that this was your idea
I have tried liking people around

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01 Dec Red For Life by Charles Case

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When the foxes mate, the cat
goes outside more often, sitting
at the edge of the woods, head
twitching, eyes resembling two

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24 Nov From the Trees Full of Birdsong Comes Unripe Fruit by Albert Abonado

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How I start a prayer: with the same hand I use
to lift food to my mouth, I draw a line down

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17 Nov What It Sometimes Sounds Like She Is Singing by Ariel Yelen

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When it’s a lemon,
a sprig of thyme,
when it’s oil.

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10 Nov Pastoral by Canese Jarboe

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They swarm my calves, my white-hot socks shining
With a thousand seed ticks. This is divine.
All through my hair & I want them to take.

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