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Internal Combustion

June 1, 2020 By Samuel Miller McDonald 1 Comment

you can’t imagine how many wearing blank /
eyes and blunt mouths stand ready, in formation /
to pull you, us, one by one, /
to the engine and lay your body, /
our bodies, /
in the flame when the coal runs low /

you can’t imagine. And yet it still won’t be enough.

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Patient Wrath

May 30, 2020 By Samuel Miller McDonald Leave a Comment

you think you’ve seen the most blessed forbearance / you think you’ve seen the most righteous wrath

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In the West

April 21, 2020 By Samuel Miller McDonald Leave a Comment

The reaching obelisk that throws
this long trench bears an inscription…

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What is Ours to Do?

March 12, 2020 By Olivia Rosane 1 Comment

He was crying, she said.
She hadn’t known they cried.

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The Civilizing Process

November 5, 2019 By Samuel Miller McDonald Leave a Comment

Since the civilizing process began most of us came to breathe by decree and not in the grace of our mothers

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Middle Age

October 29, 2019 By Susan Hutton 1 Comment

my grandfather came to me in a dream and held my hand with his calloused fingers to remind me I had not, in fact, crawled from a crack in the earth but belonged here

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