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Woman’s Card

Hey, you knew the score / walking out in that dress / I can see all that you’re worth / The declining value of spent bodies   cheap metal clanking in the machine . . . . 

Dorothy Bendel is the author of Expatriate (Finishing Line Press). Her work can be found in The Rumpus, Connotation Press, Green Mountains Review, Microchondria II: 42 More Short-Short Stories Collected by Harvard Book Store, and additional publications. She currently lives in Washington, DC, where she writes, teaches, and serves as an editor at Atticus Review.

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last year, as a lush

Charlotte Covey

  1. start with you: silvered eyes that made me. a violet knee, a sucked neck. heavy

    tongue, a brew made in cauldrons and bedrooms.

  2. maybe i was mania you
    craved. a love potion, quick to fade. read the label: 24 hours only. this spell hungers blood.

  3. i am nothing but a mouth. i drink your salt, your candle wax. i’ll drink anything                you tell me. ll me.

 

Charlotte Covey is from St. Mary’s County, Maryland. Currently, she is an MFA candidate in poetry at the University of Missouri – St. Louis. She has poetry published or forthcoming in journals such as The Normal School, Salamander Magazine, Slipstream, The MacGuffin, and Cider Press Review. She is co-editor-in-chief of Milk Journal.

 

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The God of Today

The God of Today, part 1
                                    We are in the far country,
green pastures and a scatter
of stars. Morning!
The water clobbered with light
is filled with a wild emptiness: no spoons,
steering wheels or stones. My daughter, Sunday
school, a white frame church tucked
among the Douglas firs—blurred bluffs of a hundred
bays along the misty horizon.

                                           The God of Today
is a glacier and it is                                            a late time
to be living.                                                Ask the sea rock, ask
the salt mountain,                             foothills and farms, sounds
of hooves, smell of sagebrush—another year of exposure, of rain—let us gather
the cattle before moon-
rise.

 
 

 

Amanda Sharon often thinks about the cylindrical nature of time, the illusion of fear, and ancient cultures. She currently lives in Columbus and studies at The Ohio State University. 

 

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