My Substitute Warrior, a Poem by Michael Shoemaker
To my brother and surrogate
thank you for gifting me life
to see the light in my
unborn son's eyes,
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Mar 221 min
On a Saturday Night in the Inner City, a Poem by John Grey
The siren startles with its high-pitched fever, late summer night, sending folks scrambling down side streets or indoors. Cops are either...
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Mar 151 min
Refugees, a Poem by Craig Kirchner
And in the undisturbed
brick and limestone,
everything quietly waiting for
the nocturnal, the gutters to run clear,
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Mar 88 min
Fault, a Short Story by Anna Ross
My parents decided not to give my brother a funeral. I guess they didn’t want to talk about his death. I know I didn’t. Instead, we had a...
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Mar 11 min
My 3-year-old Draws a Family Portrait, a Poem by Kuo Zhang
We ALL look
so alien,
just as what we’re called
on the official documents.
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