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The Spirit~ By K. Kelly

3/4/2021

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When a stone is thrown it bounces but remains intact.
When the heart is thrown it shatters like glass.
The stone scars. The heart breaks.
The overcasting shadows remain the same.
The spirit is forever changed, but the severity of which is not immediately clear.
The resulting mind hardly ever fades, but when it does the stone and the heart are steadfastly forgotten.
The grief remains.


Author Bio:
K. Kelly is currently working on her master’s degree in Creative Writing at Southern New Hampshire University. Her first love and passion has always been writing and editing. She loves to write poetry and creative non-fiction. She is also a certified Project Management Professional who works in the health insurance industry.
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Wanted~ By Audrey Fatone

3/3/2021

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in adolescence, I used to pray for a boy in church
and on birthday candles, at the ball drop on new years eve
as I sipped fizzy apple juice, my friends indulged in lips
and now it happened, finally

so I didn’t say no, at least not the second or third time
he asked
this chance was too rare, too precious
I couldn’t cause a ruckus, couldn’t ruin the opportunity
to be wanted
with my discomfort, with my strict boundaries
plus, it felt good

sort of, I told myself that
as hands search under the sofa
for the remote, or dust bunnies
or both

like at least it didn’t burn
echoes in my head, a mantra
at least it didn’t burn

at least not yet


Author Bio:
Audrey Fatone is an Environmental Biology student at SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, where she founded the school's Poetry Society. She seeks inspiration from backpacking in the mountains of the Northeast.
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Possibilities of a Curve~ By Sam Barbee

3/2/2021

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Its sweep can deliver you.
Tossing your firstborn
above your head like a rainbow.
Rename the silver spurt
in the widow’s garden
as spray from her hose
arches against azure
freshening trellised roses.

Debris on the calm lake buoys
belly up. Oars stir turbulence,
furors circling inland to dwindle
on the forgiving shore.
Arcs’ enamor flatten fast,
only to become a zigzag notion
scrolled from a jig-sawed pattern.
Truths diverge within the straight slice.

Passion’s slope blesses
like a woman’s hips, as imagination
coils desperate. I long for the slant
of her sad face, our last pleasure
warped with goodbye. I swerve
and survive deadman’s curve, allowed
by the bend of benign trees. Branches
slumped for a cross’s horizontal limb.


Author Bio:
Sam Barbee's poems have appeared Poetry South, The NC Literary Review, Crucible, Asheville Poetry Review, The Southern Poetry Anthology VII: North Carolina, Georgia Journal, Kakalak, and Pembroke Magazine, among others; plus on-line journals Vox Poetica, Sky Island Journal, Courtland Review and The New Verse News.

His second poetry collection, That Rain We Needed (2016, Press 53), was a nominee for the Roanoke-Chowan Award as one of North Carolina’s best poetry collections of 2016. He was awarded an "Emerging Artist's Grant" from the Winston-Salem Arts Council to publish his first collection Changes of Venue (Mount Olive Press); has been a featured poet on the North Carolina Public Radio Station WFDD; received the 59th Poet Laureate Award from the North Carolina Poetry Society for his poem "The Blood Watch"; and is a Pushcart nominee.
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