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It’s not as though I was going on dates, gorging / on the daily bread of sex, before the governor told us all / to stay home.
By Jane HilberryJuly 2021When I need to think, I clean. I sort and organize. I give away scores of possessions. In my mind I repeat the word away, away, away. I need clear, open space before I can even begin to understand the latest problem I’ve conjured for myself.
By Meg ThompsonJuly 2021What happened next I shoveled into that dark ditch of my psyche, and then I covered it with heavy stones, and it wasn’t until more than twelve years had passed that I remembered what I’d made myself forget.
By Andre Dubus IIIJuly 2021I would like to give you a metaphor that describes what it’s like to potentially pass on to one’s children a pathogenic variant that will possibly go on to kill them, but everything I am coming up with is histrionic.
By Debbie UrbanskiJune 2021I was unable to protect my children from heartache. I couldn’t keep them from the pain of it. But I could ease their journey by helping them light their dead hamster’s funeral pyre.
By Andrew JohnsonApril 2021My late breast was a model citizen: / humble, honest, kind. She gave / to her community, always erring / on the generous side.
By Kathryn JordanApril 2021They take turns at the feeders, but if one lingers too long, the others — usually males — will jabber insults until the offender leaves. I have a secret nickname for the house sparrows: Little A-holes.
By Ira SukrungruangMarch 2021I’m sick of being defined by the prison experience and long to be a normal human being with a past that doesn’t need to be discussed.
By Saint James Harris WoodMarch 2021Personal, political, provocative writing delivered to your doorstep every month—without a single ad.
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