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how to be home
FJ Poetry: "site on a wooden stool / naked as an orphan"
Amy Baskin
Poetry
To Fathom
FJ Poetry: "I take each stone into my curious palm. grub-gray, salmon, rounded well and calm."
Diana Cole
Poetry
Rahab
Poetry: "I lived in the wall, between the wilderness / and stony Jericho."
Kristin Camitta Zimet
Poetry
Winter
Poetry: "Starving herself by choice / my mother wanted to know…"
Linda Lee
Poetry
So Far So Safe
FJ Poetry: "I thought I had a can of pineapple / but it’s only apricots / in the cabinet, apricots…
E. K. Gordon
Poetry
Into a Mystery
FJ Poetry: "At the start I must enter a tunnel…"
Kathleen Gunton
Poetry
Grace
FJ Poetry: "Thank you for the words my father spoke before he died."
Laura Jackson
Poetry
Sunday Morning Whiteout
FJ Poetry: All night falling snow, a trackless silence…
Franchot Ballinger
Poetry
Vigil
FJ Poetry: The hospice nurse was shaving his slack jaw when we arrived…
Tina Schumann
Poetry
Voyagers
FJ poetry: "On the road south toward home / a chevron of geese crosses..."
Linda Rabben
Poetry
Higher Order Thinking
FJ Poetry: "What if Eve, eyeing the / red lusciousness of the apple…
Katherine Murray
Poetry
Trust
FJ Poetry: "He has been instructed to take shelter under his mother's cloak…"
Dudley Warman
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