By Christian J. Collier
Between us, there are one hundred oneumber haints in our home.In bed, we discussour future, our children...
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- By Christian J. CollierWe were ravaged by our loss, our child. In the shower, slightly past midnight,after I’d covered the ...
- By Li-Young LeeSad is the man who is asked for a story and can’t come up with one. His five-year-old son waits in his...
- By Brian SneedenMy daughter says she is the Wolf Singer.She plants the vertebrae of her enemieslike seeds. She’s three...
- By Carlina Duanin the waiting room, I watched women snaprubber bands around their wrists, runningtheir hands through...
- By Kate Aschethe sac itself wasclear and I cleaned itlike a window and in the windowsaw my baby our baby[birdlike...
- By Kush ThompsonYou will tell your babies, someday, of the little house behind the wall clock. They will love most the...
- By Catherine BarnettIt should be easy, I tell my son, to dispose of the possessions kept in these rooms. I’ve left some ...
- By Tomás Q. MorínIn this life, there are starsand there are stunt doubles.Before I became one of those fathersobsessed...
- By Liz BerryI crossed the border into the Republic of Motherhoodand found it a queendom, a wild queendom.I handed...
- By Sharon OldsI did not deserve to be beaten,and I did not deserve ballet lessons—except insofar as everyone deserves...
- By Ellen ElderMy daughter’s cellphone works only on the veranda. A metronome pulses the hours. Boats comb the lake...
- By David TaitA week of autumn snow, and today the sun, the buildings fizzy with melting, the beggar draping his sheets...
- By Jenny Zhangthe idea of my current life began one solar revolution ago to think I almost missed this called the ...
- By Kim MooreI also love the I, the way it holds everything I almost know in one great stroke, one great love, I draw it, though...
- By Jaswinder BolinaMarian upstairs is anxious for an update from the extended care facility where her husband is dying....
- By Kimberly JaeIf a jar of jelly is $2.98 & a loaf of Hawaiian bread is $4 Then how much bail money will I need when...
- By Angela JacksonBefore the doctor told me I could not leave her, Not even for fifteen minutes, Twice a week I would ...
- By Rae Rose1. I am a beloved, holy city, surrounded by barbed wire. My tribe protects me. Offers me advice. 2. ...
- By Terrance HayesThe rain falling on a night in mid-December, I pull to my father’s engine wondering how long I’ll remember...