Jul/Aug 2022

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Poetry


(These are excerpts—click on the title to view the whole piece!)
 

Special Feature — Word Poems

Poems containing the words shape, twice, repeat, and crash.
 

Fireworks

Someone doing the
strange uphill walk of the young and drunk,
clutching a Genny Cream Ale tall boy

Christine Potter
 

An ocean made of rocks

this city, all
cities—in flux with their scatter
of rocks

D.S. Maolalai
 

Each Time I Pull into Mom's Parking Spot

caught again, stuck in Alzheimer's web, a 1930s string of memory

Jill Michelle
 

Because the Netting Protects
(Spotlight Runner-Up!)

Will anyone remember having seen us at our best heights?

Shareen Murayama