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Anita G Gorman Torvald the Tomte Meets Fred Astaire 26
Edwin Rivera-Arias St. Agnes and Yazz Man are Killing the Blues 49
Rob Leone Plan B 65
A D Nauman People in Love 89
SJ MacLean Over the Hedge 101
Judith Austen Choice 128
David Alan Goldstein I had a Dream 147
Can’t We Just Love Each Other? 147
Chuck Kramer The Death of My Mother 34
Ryan M Moser Your Body Tells a Story 69
Renee C Winter Who Cares? 76
Jill Dalton I was a Cheerleader in Hitler’s Stadium 113
Bill Krakauer August 6, 1942 121
Vicki Nyman Household Saint 125
Daphne Vlachojannis A Congo Story Part 1 152
Galina Chernaya The Court of the People Part 2 157
Bruce Spang For the Taking 7
The Gathering 9
The Way Home 9
Joanne Durham Reset 11
My Father, the Poet 11
Synagogue 1962 12
The Leap 13
Carpool Politics 1966 13
Dagmar Stansova Poker Nose-Hair 21
Ramalacking Prairedox 23
Gale Acuff Nobody wants to die and I’m alive 25
A D Winans Poem for the Immigrants on the Corner of
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Childeric Maxy Prison Senses 29
Poet or Prophet 31
Cara Losier Chanoine Junk Drawer 32
Handmaid 33
Stocking Feet 33
Steven Pelcman On the Death of a Child 39
Princess 40
Matthew J Spireng Two Birds 44
Pfc. Earl James Kroft 44
Ronald Vierling Waiting for Tomorrow: A Libretto in Four Parts 45
Jan Ball Teamwork in Central Illinois 60
Robert Pfeiffer Grownup Magic 61
The Heart Breaks Back 62
Joyce Meyers Black Holes and Tree Swallows 63
An Atheist’s Morning Prayer 64
Joseph Zaccardi Let Light Settle on Trees 66
Charles Grosel Banality 67
Sharon Scholl Ashes 68
Marilyn Westfall A Lucky Place 71
Elena Lelia Radulescu History Lesson 72
The Silverware 73
Evening Moment 74
After the Funeral 75
Nick Paccione American Babble, 2020 79
Feeling a Departure at Terminal One 81
Blood: A Hybrid Story of Our Two Grandmothers 84
Linda, or Staten Island Service Station, 1977 86
Rosalind Kaliden One-Bird Woman 87
Gregg T Holliday After Work, After… 88
Grey Held Poem Written by an Old Mailbox 97
Roy Bentley Houdini 98
What Is This Thing Called Love 99
My Mother Remembers That She Was a High School Basketball Star 100
Rohan Sajnani Her Beat 111
George Longenecker Statues and Flags 112
Death Café 113
Brian Cronwall Buick 119
William Heath How It’s Done 121
Richard Parisio The Hammer 124
Gerald Yelle How Sweet It Is 126
Tom Laichas Wyoming 126
Minnesota 127
Thomas R Moore Chopin in Mali 143
Digging 144
William Snyder Corridor in the Asylum 145
James T Stemmle Screed 146
Dave Morrison Prodigal 150
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