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Getting By

aulapress — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 01:38:07 +0000

Dan Coxon For the first week the wallet sat next to the phone. David would eye it cautiously as he left for work each morning, as if he expected it to burst into flames, or come to life and flap clumsily across the room. All it did was slowly gather a thin film of ... Read more

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Beaver Valley Homestead – 1966

aulapress — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 01:37:54 +0000

Jordan Hartt (grass buckles in the newborn wind) (the cattle on a thousand hills are mine) (gravel settles behind wheels) (grain the color of nickel waves in dull sunlight) (worn overalls hang off the whitewashed porch railing) (with a farmhand he brands sullen calves) (weathered fences stagger ... Read more

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Saint Elizabeth’s

aulapress — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 01:37:38 +0000

Sarah Long My body is an ever-changing clock— spastic springs and gears never settling, never keeping proper time. Bodies carry bodies in pockets, on chains like skin-scented heirlooms. When my grandmother died, she left me her first kiss, the ticking sound of summer asphalt and peach fuzzed legs. I see my mother’s handwriting on ... Read more

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From the Fire

aulapress — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 01:37:29 +0000

Donnelle McGee for Seven i come from them smoggy nights in LA i come from the meeting of john and prostitute i come from the ohio players shouting fire i come from being told here take these food stamps to the market and get some milk for you and your brother i come from under the sound ... Read more

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Age of Parallax

aulapress — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 01:37:15 +0000

Vivian Faith Prescott The muddy tide rising to shore should carry you downriver by now. But, I imagine your scow wedged between cottonwoods on the riverbank branches shoved through your chest motor revving. Maybe your skiff is jammed on the sandbar, and you’ve stumbled over the side, whirlpools sucking your rubber-booted feet. But here, ... Read more

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