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The first day of cherry season,

By | 2023-09-04T10:56:27-07:00 September 13th, 2023|Categories: Issue 141: September 2023|Tags: , , , , , , , |

By Emily Hockaday   the sky becomes apocalyptic. The air is wool in my throat. I wear a mask to pick my daughter up from school. The fruit vendors sit next to their colorful carts like the world isn’t ending, and I suppose it isn’t for now or it is just very slowly. And what did [...]

The Lure of Socks on Warm Feet

By | 2023-09-04T10:59:04-07:00 September 13th, 2023|Categories: Issue 141: September 2023|Tags: , , , , , , , |

By Amelia Díaz Ettinger Never forget, September 20, 2017 and Maria   In my La-Z-Boy I sit, a Puerto Rican queen, feet-up admiring my knitted socks. I made these socks by knit and purl. 5,746 miles away from you it is easy to say, I worship. —And oh! How I preach this veneration, the warmth of [...]

Body Before Extinction

By | 2022-06-15T13:21:18-07:00 June 23rd, 2022|Categories: Issue 136: 23 June 2022|Tags: , , , , , , |

By Emily Hockaday   I sing to the water and lower my only child into the foam, wiggling toes first. I think about all the species the ocean held that I don't know the names of that have gone extinct this past year and focus on the sound of the waves and all the metaphors that [...]

Scrolling

By | 2020-05-09T14:43:28-07:00 May 14th, 2020|Categories: Issue 110: 14 May 2020|Tags: , , , , |

By Laura Grace Weldon   Two penguin chicks are the only survivors of a 40,000 bird Antarctic colony. I imagine fuzzy hatchlings chirping for food till silent, scroll on to read about a dog taught to talk with an adaptive device. Stella, a mixed breed, already uses 29 words although her choices don’t include “why.” All [...]