10 Mar AUTOBIOGRAPHY by Marten Clibbens

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I, were I of sufficient authority, would
tell the story, but I am better fit to listen to it,

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03 Mar SHRIKES by Dan Sicoli

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the song whistle cadence of the shrike
appears not to pair with
the sudden discordance of impaling prey.

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25 Feb Untitled Obituary by Yamilla M. Tate

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I write this obituary:.
The bottle collector pushes his cart..
The girl fixes her hijab on her way to the bus stop..

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18 Feb Remember (You) are Dust by Julianne Neely

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like this poem, like our beta fish waiting
at the fault line of water and death, to be fed
like the house flea on our blood, like an anemic.

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11 Feb Wake by Spencer Williams

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Among the waste of trees perched near the water tower, songbirds choke
on strands of brown hair, mistaking them for worms.

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04 Feb “Song” by Tracy Fuad

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Sometimes it was just a humming
Which came through the windows at night

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28 Jan “We are more than mere endurance” by Isaac Pickell

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What I love about ruins
is how they begin
to resemble the land

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21 Jan “Healing” by Deborah Osborne

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my friend told me how
for the last time, he brushed his
dying mother's long
Cherokee hair

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14 Jan Excerpt from “Winter” by Mark Nowak

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Sedition has always been in the vocabulary. Like vampires. Like turkey.
vultures who swoop down upon a dead deer.

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07 Jan “To Say It” by Robert Creeley

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Just now at five
the light's caught the north
side of the trees next
door, the extensive

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