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by Marc Swan https://www.womensmarch.com In a short hop against convention, my wife and I were married on a Friday the 13th. Today a road tr...

by Carolyn Gregory He digs his own grave, throwing in the bones of other dead men first— a femur and skull from a couple of immigrants climb...

by Pamela Wynn Seed Corn Must Not Be Ground : A mother protecting her children, lithograph by Käthe Kollwitz, 1942. Image source: Spartacus ...

by Marsha Owens Image adapted from Scott Brundage Illustration . Who are you? roared the Cyclops. I’m terrified , I whispered back. And wel...

by Allison Blevins Photo by Fletcher Gravy I think about the absolutes of motion when I’m naked, how a pendulum swings, how a scale unbalanc...

by Kristina England Any fruit can hide the fierceness of its rinds. We should never believe the weapon invincible. Record low temperatures t...

by Thomas R. Smith Late afternoon sun on snow. Intense flare concentrated in the west, skimming cold shadows pooling below the dam. On the p...

by Laura Rodley For you, my grandchildren, I am saving pine needles in the forest. For you, my grandchildren I am hanging up my clothes, sav...

by Salvador Díaz Mirón  from his 1901 collection Lascas [ Stone Chippings ];  translation by Julie Steiner Iraqi children giggle at the bod...

by Alan Catlin Does it matter? Now, here, today That they were grunts in Vietnam, her father, uncles, cousins and that she the niece, daught...