38.2 Sandra Beasley
Card Table A practical gift for moving to the city: good cherry squared around black vinyl, four long legs that fold within itself as a...
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38.2 Peter Newall
Cherry Vareniki Katya and I spent the winter Saturday afternoon at the big market that locals called “Tolchok,” “the push.” She was...
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38.2 Michael Bazzett
Career Day Any questions? I ask, ________________after my brief lesson on how to field- ____________dress a hare with one slit from neck...
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38.2 Emilia Phillips
My Childhood Dog Jessie Once Ate A Box of 120-Count Crayolas and Shat Speckled Rainbows for a Week I used to think everything had...
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38.2 Hannah Bridges
Celebration I once let a pig, pink and gleaming, into my bed to sleep. I heard it chuffing in the grass outside and went to fetch it. It...
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38.2 Sarah Fawn Montgomery
In Flame The New Year begins in flame. It is cold in New England, wind bitter with crystals of ice, frigidity leaching into bone until...
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38.2 Justin Greene
Tourette's Syndrome as Future Metalhead It started like a dare, a friend saying, in order to be heavy, you have to listen to heavier...
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38.2 torrin a. greathouse
Anthropocene Anxiety Disorder I had the same nightmare again. ___The one where all the tattoos slough ___off my body like fresh paint...
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38.2 Su Cho
New Year's on Rockland Avenue The pastor stops his sermon to start the countdown. This year, God can wait ten seconds to finish. We’ve...
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38.2 Christopher Citro
What You’re Thinking Now Is a Chunk of Marble “The readjustment to gravity was not always easy. Jack Lousma, for example, accidentally...
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38.2 Jim Whiteside
Poem on the Transbay Tube On the train I’m always looking for a distraction from the train, speeding through a tunnel underwater—from my...
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38.2 Bryan VanDyke
Not Sleeping Dreams have no beginning, people like to say. As if this clarifies how the dream world differs from the real one. The same...
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38.2 Esther Lin
I Laugh Chekhov showed me how. Vanya cannot shoot his nemesis. He is nervous, and inept besides. When my mother threw a plate at me, I...
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38.2 Suphil Lee Park
Another Day Dead From Having Been Awake Too Long What bees had in mind for home resembled a magnified eye of a fly, a globe full of...
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38.2 Stephanie Niu
A Lao Jia Song Is a Song of Home There were two times I heard my father sing. Once from behind the camera, panning to my brother’s...
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38.2 Christine Spillson
If I Had Stayed in Ohio I would have been just down the road when a man was shot in a Walmart in Beavercreek, Ohio. I would have heard of...
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38.2 Sarah Edwards
Driving to Ithaca Chicken eggs, the word MICHIGAN, your own face in the mirror: things began to take on a falseness if you thought about...
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38.2 Chekwube Danladi
Accra Wedding The yellow sun had halved, and the year was indeterminate. ___I had crossed the ocean in reverse to meet him on the beach....
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38.2 Amanda Hiber
To Digest Choke Digestion is a complicated series of voluntary and involuntary actions, but once food reaches the throat, the system is...
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38.2 Mag Gabbert
Pink first used as a common name for houseplants derived from the Greek with clenched fist and Latin to fight pierce or prick associated...
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