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- Street Life Sarah Gilbert
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- The Poem is Over Corey Mesler
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Street Life
Sarah Gilbert
Jacques Ferland, a gnomelike figure in a baseball cap and mirror shades from the dollar store, bounded up our steep front steps several times a week for years. He banged on the door with the urgency of a special delivery messenger. If we didn’t answer right away he tapped the glass with a key or [Read more...]
Sounds of Silence
Nanette Rayman Rivera
Selected by Dzanc Books for their Best of the Web 2010 anthology.
Hello darkness my old friend,
I’ve come to talk to you again
– Simon and Garfunkel
I watch him smiling to himself as we eat our first married meal together. McDonald’s. He has some light in his eyes now, his hair is combed back into his ponytail, and when he looks at me, his face turns a pale shade of pink. I love that in a man. [Read more...]