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Not really a father,
John Sibley Williams
Dear Jennifer,
Bridget Gage-Dixon
reflex 800possessedmoments Edward Wells
Now She's Going to Get It
Marjorie Silverman
Border Song: Within the Paper Spiral of Wasps
Janet Youngdahl
Invocation
I hold your ashes in my hand
Angeline Schellenberg
Ladybug, Ladybug
Cristalle Smith
Visionary
Nebraska
Katie Berger
Inherited Water View
Looking at My Hand I See Her
Robert Carr
Wife Lessons
Jody Burke-Kaiser
Glory and the Neighbors
Untidy Ending
Lauren Camp
Dark Night Full of Stars
After Trout in Siskiyou County
Bruce Robinson
{steeple-chase}
{grave-tending}
{declining dessert}
David Morgan O'Connor
The ice was coming nicely
Matthew Schmidt
Cherry Orchard Isabelle Ortner
Concurrent Incidents
I Flip a Coin and My Life Becomes Her
Jaimie Gusman
Women of Trachis
Savannah Pulfer
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Meredith Quartermain
Border Song: Within the Paper Spiral of Wasps
In the outermost cell of her nest
the female bone-house wasp
stacks dead ants
to hide the odour of her young
The layers woven between the breast
and the seeking mouth
In the outermost wasp, the female cell
nests the ant bone-house
to stack the dead, an odour
her young hide
I wrap you tightly against my skin
In the outermost female
dead young stack their cells.
bone-house ants hide
the wasp-odour of her nest
Your breath the quiet scent of milk
In the outermost stack of the dead
females hide the bone-house.
young wasp cells carry the
odour of ant’s nests
The swirling impossible separation
of my arm from its carry
In the outermost cell of her nest
the female bone-house wasp
stacks dead ants
to hide the odour of her young