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Karla Linn Merrifield
19 December 2018
I’m appealing…
to your sense of the mishchevious~
etch me with your tome
of Sappho’s poems
Debbie Strange
7 December 2018
a mirage
of mountains beckons
us homeward
we don’t know their names,
but they know ours
Nishant Mehrotra
17 November 2018
one last look
before the bus pulls away
this longing
to sit beside you
once again
Debbie Strange
12 October 2018
persimmons
peeled and hanging
out to dry…
autumn’s harvest
shines brighter this year
Debbie Strange
20 September 2018
it was
as if she were
a butterfly
the way words flew
from her open hands
Eleanor Elkin
9 August 2018
motherhood changed
the shampoo lady
in the salon
she washes my ears
Eleanor Elkin
16 June 2018
a secret non-
believer
until senility
relesed her voice…
“ridiculous”
Eleanor Elkin
19 May 2018
She recycled.
Soup in
the
pickle
jar
labeled
“Oats”
Debbie Strange
17 May 2018
the fragility
of glass sponge reefs…
after all this time
we learn something new
about each other
Eleanor Elkin
17 April 2018
I’m sorry
I didn’t
step up
when you
took sick
without you
I had
no
legs