Morning Person | Alex Goodson

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Woke up to shy blue//Thought about praying//Forgot how to//Kept my hands pressed together anyway//Drank half a pot of coffee//Used extra cream because my mouth//Wanted to feel as full as it does holding

The Cut | Mikal Wix

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Why make it easy, as you say,            a scar to sooth a runawayunadorned by ink or stitch,            just its function,to make no sudden moves,           to empty me out,to be unseen, bone-dry,           as

Seams | Annie Diamond

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Though it should mean without bears,bearless means barren. The opposites of word, according to thesaurus.com,question, silence, breach, break, quiet. Quixotic comes from Don Quixote,a book I have not read. First known concordance

Route 126 | Estella Burque

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When the desert highway freezes over in the dead of night,you can lay on that cold-soaked mattress in the truckbed,you can watch the bruised purple skin of the sky. Freckled with stars,

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