Zumba Prayer | Marianne Kunkel

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Bless the man who dismounted an elliptical            just as a song blaring from a far room of the gym ended.His timing was perfect, to know when he poked             his sweaty head

Bananas for Stu | C.C. Reid

A few weeks before your wife left you wentferal, showed up to the houses of friendsaround dinner time, and I was out front pulling tearthumbto put in a banana tree I’d traded

love-psalm | Emerson Gray

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My knees pop and crackle like a fireplace as I kneel at her feet on the carpeted floor. I flinch—my body suddenly feels too crooked, too misshapen to be here.She smiles like redemption,

Here We Call the Rat Snakes Ralph | Dawn Manning

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                                                                                              After Arthur Sze Here, the first Ralph leaves his skin                        clinging to the cinder block wall. Here, Ralph hangs his ghost by the mouth                        from between the

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