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Two Poems by Leslie McGrath

By | 2018-03-22T08:49:52-07:00 March 22nd, 2018|Categories: Issue 58: 22 Mar 2018|Tags: , |

Agnostic She with her sac of eggs strung between curved wall & clapper doesn’t know her world’s a bell. Estrangement Ripped at the seams the garment laid out for viewing is a garment no longer Child from mother from sister from brother Each an ostracism ultimately of the self No punishment’s more intimate [...]

Just Like Picking Flowers

By | 2017-11-07T12:34:34-08:00 November 9th, 2017|Categories: Issue 48: 09 Nov 2017|Tags: , , |

By Leslie McGrath   The almond wears a thin corduroy vest that cannot protect the nut. The skin of a ripe peach peels like a second degree burn. The oyster clenches even as we break its nacreous wings at the hinge to get at the meat. When the mushroom man appeared with baskets braceleted up to [...]