Chloie Piveral – Feeding You What’s Left

Chloie Piveral Feeding You What’s Left The trash is rank with the smell of decay; full of fluid-soaked chicken wrappers, moldy burger buns, rainbow-colored slick flecks of pungent tuna. My stomach growls, but I’ve lost my appetite. I made a list, fifteen pages long, trying to remember our last meal together. Tuna casserole? Burgers? Moroccan […]

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Lexi Pelle – Ode to the Way We Move

Lexi Pelle Ode to the Way We Move in the inpatient eating disorder program.Caroline G taps her foot to the tune ofpasta night. Sara takes four separate tripsto get a pair of scissors, two markers, a sheetof paper and Scotch tape from the craft basket,and Amanda, who signed herself in,just admitted she’s been doing cruncheson […]

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Carly Joy Miller – Epistle on Desire

Carly Joy Miller Epistle on Desire Men in the air. Long days long days. My retainer’s tang bookends them. Sweat and showers turpentine the last kiss. To remain sweet: Apples and walnuts for breakfast. Vanilla ice cream, coax for sleep. To be pined over. Pinned. Repetition, a stigmata: I tried, then tired, of the larger […]

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Brittany Micka-Foos – Our Lady of Sorrows

Brittany Micka-Foos Our Lady of Sorrows The Virgin Mary cradles her miraclein the courtyard of the Holy Cross.Automatic doors part for usand I confess: I’m not even Catholic:I’m an atheist. It’s a good hospital, you say as we passthrough the doors, past the chapel, dimmedlights and hard pews—a place to prayfor the sick or dying,not […]

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Anthony Thomas Lombardi – the wolf will live with the lamb

Anthony Thomas Lombardi the wolf will live with the lamb it’s dark & i am listening & somethingis listening to me. i don’t whimper. i cross my chest & place my hands on the choppingblock but it’s my tongue God wants. i figured this a decent compromise the way i pick-pocket the prophets each time […]

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James Champion – Leaf Between

James Champion Leaf Between for Riki I’m walking with you and without you.The between follows us, a wild glimmer. The sky,too, wanders whitely throughthe birch trees like an abandoned thought. Then, it’s as if the geese overhead said, “Oh,a meadow,” and let one fall feathery from their wings,golden and rippling. This meadow, this is the […]

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