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Issue 6

A Woman’s Labor

Blink, Breathe, Sigh, Smile 2:15-6:20pm | Thursday, September 5, 2019 Revise two papers. Answer text messages:  Encourage dancer to audition for the play. Reschedule 3:30

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Issue 6

This is My Anger

Fire limned with resentment, eating up the air until I choke— this is my anger, gaslit, bewildered. No longer able to tell who should be

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Issue 6

We Row

We Row “Work is love made visible.” – Khalil Gibran   It’s an hour ‘til Labor Day.  The towels are in, all soggy spun cotton

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Issue 6

Little Sticks of Pain

I wear my fingers out into the coldBare, pleading winter air to cool the stabs of heatTo calm the thin acid between my finger bones

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Issue 6

Four Women

  Guayaquil, Ecuador – 1929 Etelvina Alarcón awakes just before dawn, muttering “Se acabó la buena vida.” The good life is over. She arrives at

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Issue 6

The Things They Tell Us

by Parivash Goff Illustration by Tatyana Safronova Begin When the others gather to play tag and foursquare, to dress up dolls and masquerade as pirates,

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