Everything is behind a chain linked fence and I think I might have tennis elbow. I’ve trained for this my whole life and now here we are with no words in the night sky.
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Everything is behind a chain linked fence and I think I might have tennis elbow. I’ve trained for this my whole life and now here we are with no words in the night sky.
We wore white hats and tights, colorful buttons / preventing the wind from undoing our clothes.
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Every summer, the fires come. Sometimes, they arrive early, stay past the fall. The fires tear through houses and bird nests. Schools close…
My son is a year-old as I write this, and he’s slept through the night twice. Both times I’ve woken in panic, sure this meant something was terribly wrong.
My mother doesn’t read while I play in the sand with my friends or take my weekly swimming lesson. She reclines in the cheap plastic beach chair, swatting away the occasional fly and sipping her Tab. With her mirrored aviator…
As he ran, his tattered white sneakers stirred dust. But when he stepped on first base, Norm’s demeanor reverted to that of an old and ailing man. Before he limped back to his spot on the fence, he said, “That’s…
An interview with Ruth Madievsky, Columbia Journal 2019 winter contest poetry judge. Conducted by Matthew Dix, print poetry editor.
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