Issue #80

The New Materials
Rachel Abramowitz
Vision After The Sermon
Matthew J. Boyleston
Regarding The Distance Between Our Suburbs
James Engelhardt
This Slowly Stampeding
Eryn Green
An Echo
Brian Patrick Heston
The Visitation
Kathryn Hunt
Cleaner
Siel Ju
Longer
Siel Ju
Speaking As The Male Poet
Keetje Kuipers
A Mirror Dissolving
Christina LaPrease
Online Dating
Teresa Leo
The Heart Has the Capacity to Break and Reset a Million Times
Teresa Leo
Return To Rush And Flutter
Ada Limón
Maybe We're Quakers
Jeff G. Lytle
In Vino Veritas
Maryilyn McCabe
Say Sing
Kerrin McCadden
Lesson
Ashley McWaters
Nests
Yvonne C. Murphy
Junk
Charles O'Hay
The Life
Charles O'Hay
For The First Time In Years
Josh Rathkamp
Letters
Tomaž Šalamun
Stork Lift Your Weight
Tomaz Salamun
Animal Chase
Mathias Svalina
Frog In The Sea
Mathias Svalina
The Spy
Mathias Svalina
The Stomach Ache
Mathias Svalina
The Walrus Dance
Mathias Svalina
The Last Scene In Casablanca
Rob Talbert
 
Light Industrial
Rachel Chalmers

The Fire Time
Wendy Fox

Homage
Andrew Palmer

Go Children Slow
Joseph Rogers

Trust
Francine Witte

Father Image
R.G. O'Reilly

 
Piece of the Week

Trust

by Francine Witte


Sarah had given up on trust. Then she met Harley. He was so oozy with charm, she stopped being careful. He would tell her how pretty she looked in her print dress even though she was wearing a pantsuit. And just as she was about to correct him, he would give her his dazzle smile, and that was that.


Soon, he persuaded her to open a joint bank account. Of course, most of the money was hers. Her dead husband, Wendell, had left her quite well off. As time went by, and Sarah asked where all the money was going, Harley would wink and tell her they could live on love.


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