What I Know
By Anne Taylor
That it’s hard not to take it personally when people avoid you like the plague.
That a word, or a smile, or saying hello with your eyes can make all the difference.
Two Poems
By Jessica Jost-Costanzo
They are just little white marks on the scan,
and they are floating shapes
that make me think of clouds—
clouds that look like funny things,
cute things.
Two Poems
By Tina Cole
I am a dot on the face
of this page
a white wilderness diary
boxed in by
dates with no purpose
it is new year in May
it is new year in June
the page edges
boundary a redundancy
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