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Poetry

Poetry

Shapeless Skin story art

Shapeless Skin

By Travis Chi Wing Lau

Corporeal expanse, with wrangled nerves and a quieted pulse.

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About the Fires story art

About the Fires

By Andrew Kruse-Ross

Embers of home billow and blow as history burns hard.

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Abuses Amended art

Abuses Amended

By Jessica Edwards

Indignities and exploitation are righted with sharp words and a blunt defense.

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America is Weeping art

America is Weeping

By Diana Franco

Barbarism is given free rein in a gun-happy nation.

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Curative art

Curative

By Karen V. Garrison

Lyrical elixirs for the ailing soul.

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Philosophia: The Red Queen art

Philosophia: The Red Queen Race

By Tania Escobedo

Ascended and with a reliable rule, the queen knows her worth.

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For The Dead and Dying art

Three Poems For the Dead and Dying

By Zahra Gordon

A lament for those in and beyond the passage from here to there.

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Yellawoman poetry art

Yellawoman

By Jessica Gallion

On the margins and in darkness, the survivor takes adversity as a necessity for growth.

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Ratchet of the Earth cover art by Tim Sullivan

Ratchet of the Earth

By Adriana Garriga-Lopez

Wiley and unpredictable, the wronged rise and strike back.

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Ghost Story Crafted for a Girl Child story art

ghost story crafted for a girl-child

By Samantha DeFlitch

Environmental harm contaminates the soul of the abusers and discolors the spirit of the abused.

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