Poetry
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Feral
by Keri Cheechoo
Adopted kids /
Those adopted kids /
Or them /
That was us /
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People were gruff /
Didn’t realize / ...
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Love(lessly)
by Lesley Belleau
Without the words wasted words all those words and nights I poured myself into you. Thirty seven and I handed the pulp ...
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gishpin, eta
by Vera Wabegijig
resurgence /
regeneration /
indigenous revival /
it’s all about survival /
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from below we follow ...
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Prairie
by M.D. Dunn
Inorganic, the sky’s baton /
peaks and sweeps from a cloud podium /
all the dips and warbles of feet /
in ...
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Appleseeds
by Christine Fellows
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— Marianne Moore /
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Stillness interrupted — ...
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Midlife
by George Murray
You preach to your choir, /
I bitch to mine; our metastatic /
Zens combine to make /
liars of everyone ...
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Species of Dust
by David Huebert
I will show you fear in a handful of dust. /
White dust of finger-bones, milled in flesh /
Pestles, and the ...
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Rural Pantheon
by Sarah Wolfson
An ad’s gone out in the village pages /
for Minor God of Incandescent Rages. /
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Likewise sought is someone ...
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Need a picture for the obit
by Kim Fu
In their wedding photos, /
my mother resembles a doll of herself, /
painted and straw-thin in tablecloth lace, / ...
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My Old Man
by Robert Currie
“Get a job,” he used to say /
when I was up till midnight, /
red-eyed, nervous, burnt out, /
cramming for ...