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Beachcomber Nocturne
This sea: a Chevy engine revving high/ reminding me how everything’s design. Lupita Eyde-Tucker In the midst of it all, it helps to remember everything's design. Not in an "Everything happens for a reason" — "It's all good" kind of way, but mo...
read moreI Wish It Were Enough to Be —
If only what’s happening to me/ were like that cattail out the window,// soft as childhood sadness,/ catching the light.// Or, how earlier––the small gray rocks along the shore,/ as I approached, became birds. Fay Dillof Adult sadness has h...
read moreSearch Party
Together, above the kitchen sink, we peeled/ a hundred russets. You taught me howto scoop their eyes out. If we didn’t,// they’d watch us eat, you said. Steven Espada Dawson Potatoes have always given me purpose and comfort and pleasure. Mashi...
read moreThe Feast of St. Francis
The cattle lower their heads as they enter/ the chapel. Even the lowly will be anointed./ Because Francis too had his time in the wilderness, lost in the mountains outside Assisi. He was/ drunk for months. Coming down from the hillside/ he kissed a m...
read moreAbout Katie
Born in Louisville. Live in Atlanta. Curious by nature. Researcher by education. Writer by practice. Grateful heart by desire.
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