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Say by Lauren Mallett All this to say keep an eye out.I’d say somethingif I thought anythingwere up. All this to say there was this one time.There were bison.They tended to stand and eat. All this to say no pets.But plants, anyhow.And the light bulbsthat grow them....
The Mechanical Bird Writes an Ars Poetica (Dear X, -B) by Caroline Chavatel SOUNDING This store smells like hot fleshand not the good kind. Yesterday,the birds at the store hoveredabove me and my bags fullof good. I am dispersing theminto the world. The birds judgeme...
Another Balikbayan In Which Ma Asks Her Kids To Go To Mass With Her Pero No One Ever Does by Dujie Tahat So in went the Word—for it was the first day.The second, Father was away. My motherfolded the hand-me-downs slowly to formperfect angles. The basket...
Mm! by Daniel D’Angelo So, one of those gray paintingsyou look at and see other colors vibrating, and shapes decide to surface and shift withinthe limits of the frame. Oh, one of those shifted paintings where you can definitely seered horses with rad dudes...
Indifference + Edgewood Creek by Ed Skoog Indifference When you come, bread will be pulled from ovens,soot braiding up the bakery’s white stucco, and freshly-laundered curtains will permit entryof our famous sunlight through the flowering gauze to enrage the deep true...