Vito J. Racanelli
THE NIGHT BEFORE Kristi laid out her long white dress on the bed and smoothed it with the back of her right hand. She ran her fingers along the fabric from top to bottom a few times. The cut was a...
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LIFE IN TERMS The first is blonde and I am sixteen. We see a scary movie I don’t remember the title of. I am not old enough, so we buy tickets to March of the Penguins and sneak in to the scary one. I...
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REPLICA What is the cost of the unhinged howls of those without hope, the sodden allegory laid plain on the kitchen table, nothing gussied up or named with a false rhyme. Bleak hearts brim with greed...
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THORA AT THIRTEEN She wants a ghost or more a pooka: horse whose hooves lead steady to the cliff. Uneasy ‘cause she can’t get off on flesh alone, such stone, those statues slack beside the crosswalk,...
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NOVEMBER AND THE MUSIC BOX The field is ready for winter, when it sleeps it won’t get enough as if something fierce in the ground is pulling it down to its core, then the wind will be homeless and...
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THE AFFAIR (SPRING) Her whole body was one bone, a curved rib. Clarity was elsewhere, afterward, after the story rolled over in its sleep, when everything spilled across the table (in her center, where...
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_______________________________________________ Becca Barniskis lives in Minnesota where she works as a teaching artist, free-lance writer and consultant in arts education. She’s the Associate...
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COMMUNION You began with a glass of wine, thick and dark and rich, the night J and I camped up in the mountains, so far north we walked right up to the snow, even though it was the middle of summer....
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POEM OF EXPERIENCE “I will never again write from personal experience.” - Lynn Emanuel If they keep on with their unstable muttering, chipping away at the worn first person who’s now pulling weeds...
View ArticleWINTER ISSUE VI
Winter Issue POETRY Kristin Abraham | Becca Barniskis | Allie Marni Batts | Amanda Cobb | Patricia Caspers | Bianca Diaz | Mercedes Lawry | Abbie J Leavens | Joseph Millar | Joel Peckham | Dan...
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