Year: 2023
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Origin Stories – Kelly Sargent
Seeing Voices by Kelly Sargent My twin sister used to shut her eyes to shut me up when we argued. Born deaf, she held the advantage in any girlhood fight. I had no choice but to be instantly muted — her eyelids, a remote control when static sounded like me. I would steady my hands…
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Origin Stories – Jess Parker
Origin Story v_2 by Jess Parker It was She that brought the first He and the many after. Man enveloped by woman (contained by) and set loose when ready. Otherwise, where would the ‘w’ sneak through with its many elbows— or the ‘o’ an ancient infinity symbol, turning, starting itself over. A portal where one…
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Origin Stories – Yvonne Zipter
Tenacity by Yvonne Zipter Across the world, there’s a war going on, the latest in a long line of self-important potentates who believe the world belongs to them, destroying what they mean to keep, taking lives like pennies at the convenience store register. But life is as hungry as death. Lupine flowers, cunningly wolfish, sprout…
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Origin Stories – Maryann Hurtt
Even Dead Fish Become Roses by Maryann Hurtt she remembers in her last days as cancer slips through a back door trying to steal whatever was good but memories sustain her of a time relishing second chance lust even love and how she and her man lay on Onion River’s bank joining muck and grit…
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Origin Stories – Laurie Kuntz
“The Way You Talk Me Off the Roof” On My Husband learning the song If We Were Vampires by Jason Isbell by Laurie Kuntz I asked you to learn a love song with a sad chorus: This can’t go on forever Likely one of us will have to spend some days alone… and you spent…
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Origin Stories – Susan Barry-Schulz
Jones —on reading Alex D. at Jones Beach State Park, Field 2 by Susan Barry-Schulz I took your book, Love, to the windswept beach. Grains of sand hurled themselves deep into its spine. Pages fluttered— feathers and pages, papery wings inked in fire. A single cloud slid across the bluest of skies, darkening the seawater,…
