The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster

When you take your pill

it’s like a mine disaster.

I think of all the people

   lost inside of you.

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Do you know where our child has gone? …

Kevin Prufer

The praying mantis, molting, left this cast, …

Celeste Turner Wright

Red fox, moving, body close to the ground, …

Frederic Prokosch

How I’ve changed may not be apparent. …

Patricia Kirkpatrick

begins in dirt, clumps of Queen Anne’s lace, bindweed unfurling its moons in the morning …

Mira Rosenthal

Evening. Who calls? The light …

Chester Kallman

There is no spring thunder …

Milton Burgh

GRAY SONGS …

Mercy Baldwin

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