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to the stables. I called her name and heard it come back at me in the wind. My breath caught in my lungs and I stopped there in the threshold. The animals were stampin‘ and cryin‘ out to me, as I ran past them, down the line of rattlin‘ boards, toward the slaughterhouse. I fell over somethin‘ in the dark and felt my face fall into thick wetness on sharp hay that stabbed at me. When I opened my eyes, there she was at my feet. A shard of moonlight was comin‘ through the wall, right there across her cheek, on her half moon scar and her eye was lookin‘ at me. 16
Wayne Berninger GUESS WHO I CUT IN TWO LAST NIGHT my best friend is to all-natural & naked as the day she was born as lead or mercury or cadmium is to super-genius & sight for sore eyes is to home-cooked meal as howling wind is to good music for sex & music to the ear is to deliquescence as codependent is to an embarrassment of witches & pickpocket is to fictional cave monster as graduation with honors is to larger than life deep sea creature & overflowing bathtub is to frantic whistling as benevolent rule is to rich farmland & cornfed corporal is to the successful prosecution of arctic warfare as late night backrub is to the recharging of dead batteries & the setting of a kitchen match to dry paper is to tickertape parade as pay raise is to a night alone in the crow‘s nest & rock the boat is to hair grease as overplayed power ballad is to lifeguard station & suntan lotion is to the impending argument as the old man‘s car horn is to surprise company for dinner & spare the rod is to prison camp as good character & competitive nature is to seaworthy vessel & duty upon same 17
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Kate FOUR POEMS These poems appear
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Anna Lindwasser BIRTHDAY sometimes
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Elspeth Woodcock Macdonald IN CLASS
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Uche Nduka HALF PAST ZERO no hard f
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Steve Newton DRIVING WITH ABSENT FR
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Beatriz Alzate Rodriguez A STORY OF
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Sarah Wallen OPOSSOMOON —an excer
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