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CAPITALISM
by JD DeHart I dreamed I sold you last night It was to the highest bidder Like a carnival barker I sang your moments Of highest praise When I woke, I was glad To find your sweetness Still with me. |
NIGELLA PODS by Allyson Seconds |
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CHANGE DOES IT
by Varsha Saraiya-Shah A long fat potato, sweet and meant to be eaten, stays idle for weeks in my fruit bowl. It grows pig tails and ivory beard over threads of mustache. My friend says, it needs change. I pluck all idle limbs fattened on its sweetness, put them in a glass with water on window-sill to befriend the sun. Weeks pass, they continue sprouting new leaves winding their way around the mini-blind; my new friends sing and keep company as I do dishes drinking the sun-splashed water. We know what change does, how change rubs on those who think they're alone or scraping by or can't make sense of what seems ugly– it grows new seeds of sweetness, an assurance. |
HUE RIVER, VIETNAM by Baxter Jackson |
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PRESENTATION
by Lisa J. Cihlar I have a small red rowboat and today I will paddle us to the heart of the big lake and we will discover an island that only you and I will know about. We will disembark there. I will feed you sturgeon and sweet potatoes and I will bestow you fishhooks and copper beads to wear around your neck and you will braid turquoise baubles in my hair. Because I know your favorite bird is the toucan, I will have a flock of them natter to us from the oak and birch trees growing on the shore. When it snows they will transform into crows that will squawk the short daylight hours through. When you weary of that, I will wave a cedar branch in the shimmering hoarfrost filled air and they will become black ash flung skyward from the fire that I will start with flint and steel I have carried in my pocket forever. |
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THE RAISINS
by JD DeHart All women are beautiful No matter their age The boy informed his uncle He was 16 and at the beach Uncle smiled as, at that moment Two old women with deep wrinkles Walked by, looking to plant Their absurdly large umbrella. |
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