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Juan Carlos Mestre

Contributor Juan Carlos Mestre is a Spanish poet, essayist, and visual artist. He is the author of many prize-winning collections of poetry, including Antífona del otoño en el Valle del Bierzo (Premio Adonáis, 1985), La casa roja (Premio Nacional de Poesí ...

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The Acolyte

Juan Carlos Mestre

The Acolyte All night long I’ve been reading the Oration on the Dignity of Man by Pico della Mirandola, from which one concludes that May 14, 1486, does not exist, that spring and youth are daughters of Marsilio Ficino, that beauty by mythological right i ...

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Second Time This Year

Ace Boggess

Second Time This Year The man working on my mother’s house is an ex-con like me. He doesn’t say, but removes his shirt, the heat pressing 90, & although I don’t have them, I recognize his tattoos a specific blue-black stain from melted plastic chess p ...

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Driveway

Richard Siken

Driveway My brother flew out because the third wife was dying. I picked him up at the airport and drove him to the bottom of the driveway, like always. I had not driven onto the property in several years. Sometimes, when I arrived to pick him up for his r ...

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Gifts

John Pijewski

Gifts My father fixed my broken chair with a single shot of vodka, built a bicycle from cigarette butts, a couch from shattered bricks. He sewed teddy bears from snow, cobbled shoes from chicken soup, tailored dust into sweaters, trained my socks to sing ...

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Carry

John Pijewski

Carry My father carried an empty coffin everywhere he went. Then at night he carried it back up to our third‐floor apartment, resting every few stairs to catch his breath. John Pijewski Saturday, July 15, 2023 Poetry Issue 164 Web Share Tweet ...

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Shirts and Trousers

John Pijewski

Shirts and Trousers The day my father died, his favorite flannel shirt held my mother’s hand, listened to her waterfall of memories. His trousers tidied the bedroom and the rest of the house. My father’s shoes were dancing in the closet; his choir of sock ...

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Wayne Koestenbaum

Contributor Wayne Koestenbaum—poet, critic, fiction-writer, artist, filmmaker—has published over twenty books, including Ultramarine, The Cheerful Scapegoat, Figure It Out, Camp Marmalade, My 1980s & Other Essays, The Anatomy of Harpo Marx, Humiliatio ...

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Sarah Mollie Silberman

Contributor Sarah Mollie Silberman's stories have appeared in Booth, CutBank, Nashville Review, Potomac Review, upstreet, and Witness. She lives in Washington, DC. Find her online at www.sarahmolliesilberman.com. Contributions Issue 164 Summer ...