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Issue 31
Poetry
We Called It Snow
Alicia Combs
Drifting
Ava Raccaro
Womb to Woman
Briana Stone
Chess
Eliana Franklin
Condiments and other poems
Mara Batt
Everyday Embroidery
Nobel Chan
Stick and Poke and Other Poems
Rachel Valente
Ekphrasis in the Louvre
October 2014 and other poems
CELESTE BRIEFS
from We Called it Snow
My hometown was hills; sledding,
down clinging to plastic rims,
of lids taken from toy boxes.
We called them sleds.
Or for sitting on skateboards in the heat
and racing down. Tumbling off
when we reached the bottom.
Elbows scraped and bruised;
a familiar satisfying sting.
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from Everyday Embroidery
Today the way the breaking sun
Slants through the window glass
And shines to make the colors sing
And stirs the dust to make them dance;
When dawn comes to my morning eye
And draws me out of dusty dreams,
I think I see the world unstitched
Laid before me with broken seams.
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From variations on the lakes
Tell me,
Where do all the poets go to die? Someplace haunted, shaded in willow trees and susurrating grasses, holding their muses close, loves heavy enough to drown with.
Those lakes of mystery where gossamer mists swept like silken nightgowns, crystalline cardigans, over softly quilted Windermere peaks, like young bodies
laid to rest, where
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Art on this page: Mother Nature by Stephanie Burgos.