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  • Poem
    By Jack Collom
      "When one is seen gliding through the woods and close to the observer, it passes like a thought, and…
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    Removal Act

    By Erin Marie Lynch
    All the while the dog was dying.
    I didn’t know. His little heaps

    of yellow vomit. Damp spots
    where …
  • Poem
    By Nathan Hoks
    It's confusing, after eating so much cauliflower
    From the serving tray, to find oneself alone
    Like this…
  • Poem
    By Katie Hartsock
    Mid-morning, a girl and dog attend the woods,
    the lilies of the valley just shy thin shoots.
    The Boy…
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    Drawl and Hum

    By Tina Mozelle Braziel
    Three hundred twenty is the number
             of frogs I’ve raised
    and released during the pandemic.
             Yes, I’m trying…
  • Poem
    By Derek Sheffield
    Last patches of snow all but gone and first
    wildflowers flecking the lawn, I walked out
    to the shed …
  • Poem
    By Jennifer L. Knox
    Abby hates car rides. All buck and thrash,
             her gray swayback swells and her limbs
    flail like drumsticks…
  • Poem
    By Betsy Franco
    Send to: techno_cat@catmail.com
    From: me@catmail.com

    When writing friends an email
    I sometimes &p*&…
  • Poem
    By Talvikki Ansel
    On the buffy-tan painted house sides
    there’s a hornets’ nest we let grow, huge
    domed head, anchored …
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    Burke’s Goddess

    By Martin Dyar
    On the phone, when the vet who was waylaid
    sounded stunned by what Burke had just described,
    and reasoned…
  • Poem
    By Duane Niatum
    I.

    Stars among
    corn fields
    above fences
    the crows
    line like
    darkness points,
    spread over the earth
  • Poem
    By Patricia Jabbeh Wesley
    "Mom, you wouldn't let me adopt a dog in my dream,"
    my daughter tells me. "Really? Go back to your 
  • Poem
    By Paisley Rekdal
    So after M died, she turned
    to the dog. His copper eyes, the sinewy
    haunch muscles. The way he perched…
  • Poem
    By Dorothy Chan
    My mother warns me not to blow-dry my hair
               too hard, turning it from black to rust, and
    I must wear …
  • Poem
    By Cynthia Huntington
    Is shut out on a balcony above the street.
    He is a prisoner among us, crying
    The awful boredom of observation…
  • Poem
    By Connie Wanek
    He came home from middle school
    with a wet kitten tucked inside
    his black leather jacket.
    He'd found…
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    My Dog

    By Matthew Zapruder
    away from joy
    you walk a little
    missing a tooth
    discussing famous
    black dogs
    on the dead
    chests of lovers…
  • Poem
    By Kenneth Lee
    I sit with my thermos of coffee on the mall:
    a mile-long promenade, arcades of elms
    flanking a generous…
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