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Sally Zakariya

Love on Imaginary Boulevard Imagine the sun kissing the rose petals. It’s like that. Or it’s like the breeze that ruffles maple leaves on the street outside the window. Something like that, at any rate, but maybe more romantic—at least, … Continue reading

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Luisa A. Igloria

The World, like a Lover, Asks for Another Chance From under the banyan where a holy man delivered the sermon Bhagavad Gita; to trains bearing refugees safely across borders, away from fallen towns. Imagine what it takes to bear a … Continue reading

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Gail Giewont

None of This Exists Except Absence This is not a real road, this pavement, but still fictional traffic roars by, windows cranked down, imaginary music spilling out, bass thumping in bone marrow like the beat of an external heart—songs that … Continue reading

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Derek Kannemeyer

Two Sleepwalkers On the night she first sleeps with him a back door fills with stars. Out of night-shadow and floor-creak she steps barefoot onto dew-damp grass. The night’s breath frisks her gown. She’s six, then! She lived this dream. … Continue reading

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Anant Dhavale

A Midnight Sonata When one by one all the shops have closed alongand the night is a muslin turning blue anonThere’s a misty air that says it’s getting late The town has gone to sleep and the stars have left … Continue reading

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Cathy Hailey

Dionysian Dreamscape Meander along a geometric path. Tetrahedrons sprout from rectangular prisms, each triangular side equilateral. Enter this abstract fantasy world, follow curvilinear lines, concentric circles, a natural purple geode agate slice. Skate the coping, drop in to an amethyst … Continue reading

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Claudia Gary

On the Boulevard This is not London, Vilnius or Athens. Nothing is new or old among the mistimed traffic lights, or the neat sidewalks that crumble along rows of rezoned apartment buildings. An on-ramp curves and banks. Vehicles sputter, then … Continue reading

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Katherine M. Gotthardt

Inamorato Once, in front of the house, cardinal on a wire before dawn. He, red, the color of danger, anger, or iniquity, thinks of perhaps leaving for lower heights, some widowed female on an old tree branch, both browned by … Continue reading

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Bonnie Naradzay

Poem as Nature Walk Those aren’t scarlet berries on the willow leaves; they are parasitic wasps in camouflage. Pine trees prune themselves to get rid of branches that fail to find enough sunlight to survive. Bees see green as gray; … Continue reading

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Pamela Murray Winters

Love and a Reimagined Mill Swamp Road Some wit with a Sharpie has turned the traffic sign’s yellow spot into a Pac-Man gobbling up the incline. Real lights can’t play the game. Go, stop, yield—nothing left to chance or judgment. … Continue reading

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