By Michelle V. Alkerton

initialism

disease progression

now four letters

Michelle V. Alkerton

 

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food bank line

empty hands

holding her place

Michelle V. Alkerton

Bryan Rickert

zoloft down the rabbit’s hole

Bryan Rickert

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wild hops it’s complicated

Bryan Rickert

John Pappas

surprising our grief the cuckoo clock

John Pappas

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day’s end

pouring himself four fingers

of darkness

John Pappas

By Reid Hepworth

tracking footprints in the snow jury duty

Reid Hepworth

By Barrie Levine

the paper napkins

paper thin—

soup kitchen

Barrie Levine

By Vasile Moldovan

in the airport

butterflies and planes

ready to take off

Vasile Moldovan

By Priti Khullar

old friends

old gossip

I return younger

Priti Khullar