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One of those nights when I wake with a start, thinking I have heard my daughter calling my name, […]
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Poetry Prize
Poem Written in the Sixth Month of My Wife’s Illness
I didn’t know that when my mother died, her grave / would be dug in my body.
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The Nurse Lifts the Clipboard & Replaces All Your Vital Signs
with scratch-n-sniff stickers. You undress in front of her because your body looks like hers. She stuffs her purse
“Equilibrium” by Tiana Clark
Took me thirty years to say / I’m glad I don’t pass for white.
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“Elegy” by Patricia Smith
Patricia Smith ELEGY Splayed, blood-dazzled, lost in an Oriental rug’s wry repetition of roses, you were hours gone. When you
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“Deus Ex Machina” by Melissa King Rogers
[audioplayer file=”https://admin.rattle.com/audio/RogersDeus.mp3″] Melissa King Rogers DEUS EX MACHINA Royal Gorge Bridge, Colorado October 3, 2003 how all occasions do inform