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issue 3 - funeral sky

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back around how far to the end and
- Mariel Herbert, USA



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drawing me in my moth-white dress your darkness

-Mary Stevens, USA





you in me mother i sense autumn 

-Kala Ramesh, India  





rosemary memory decomposing poems in the butterfly garden

-Ash Evan Lippert, USA
 




the scar in the earth where the gutter rain falls this emptiness

-Jennifer Hambrick, USA  





turkey carving my father’s absence

-Peter Newton, USA





a silent nightingale in her throat cancer 

-Robert Witmer, Japan 





 the pale blue palette of the funeral’s sky my father’s eyes 

-Joseph P. Wechselberger, USA
 




we can’t say schizophrenia rain in the funeral tent 

-Dan Schwerin, USA  





rereading your o(r)bit blue moon

-Roland Packer, Canada





humming lyrics almost inaudibly her grave 

-paul m., USA





the moment kindling catches grief
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-Evan Vandermeer, USA



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