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Song a Year After My Mother’s Death
I allowed a small song
Carrie Etter
Late Portrait
Dried flowers everywhere. Greeting cards. China plates hung on walls, showing a
Amy Gerstler
Phone Call: Lesson in Style and The Story of Civilization
“Everything feels all swollen and puffy, like my brain
Tom Sleigh
Love Talk | On the Way to the Casinos
What the boy heard his older sister say—
Scott Withiam
August
Water and wind do it too
Jennifer Grotz
Tool & Die
In the final unburdening, massive crates are moved
T.R. Hummer
Template
Any skink
Carolyn Guinzio
L’Heure Bleue
Who was the first to say darkness “falls”?
Barbara Ras
Down by the River
Down by the river behind the barn
J.T. Ledbetter
FISHERMAN, 50 B.C.
What else would I do on the river
Benno Barnard
Locked Gate
On December 19, 1980
Susan Gardner
From Rainer Maria Rilke’s Die Sonette an Orpheus / The Sonnets to Orpheus translated from German by John Rosenwald
O fountain-mouth, you gift-giver, you mouth
Rainer Maria Rilke

Song a Year After My Mother’s Death