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Scent of Mock Orange

By | 2017-04-12T19:06:02-07:00 April 13th, 2017|Categories: Issue 20: 13 April 2017|Tags: , |

A cento by Marcia Meier   The serpent, that mocker, woke up and pressed against me In the west the falling light still glows but here on earth we’ve got a fair supply of everything If you tasted it, it would first taste bitter crooning black lullabies in the kitchen, And now, it is easy to [...]

Sleeping With the Enemy

By | 2017-02-23T21:08:49-08:00 December 29th, 2016|Categories: Issue 5: 29 Dec 2016|Tags: , , , |

By Marcia Meier I have been sleeping with the enemy for more than two years. Rob is a Republican. But on the morning after the election, he held me close as I sobbed and promised, “It will be okay.” He promised. But he doesn’t know. And nothing that has happened since that morning has made either [...]