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Stitch-By-Stitch, Katacha Diaz Dec 2018

Stitch-By-Stitch, Katacha Diaz

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Many years ago while on vacation in Santa Fe, New Mexico, I decided to take an early morning stroll in the city’s art district.


314 East 25th Street, On January 1st, Matthew Brennan Dec 2018

314 East 25th Street, On January 1st, Matthew Brennan

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It’s moving day—the sun glimmers as dimly as Venus in the morning sky.


Tuesday Night, Amber Thompson Dec 2018

Tuesday Night, Amber Thompson

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The coppery softness of cinnamon sticks to my fingers.


Qwerty, James E. Fowler Dec 2018

Qwerty, James E. Fowler

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What you’ve seen but can’t place, always overlooking


Looking As They Should, Philip Wexler Dec 2018

Looking As They Should, Philip Wexler

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On the ferry to the Stockholm Archipelago, Gunilla


Frisk, James E. Fowler Dec 2018

Frisk, James E. Fowler

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the air vent is a cat


Lady: Bug, James E. Fowler Dec 2018

Lady: Bug, James E. Fowler

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Tired of buzzing humdrum, she gaped.


Tennyson, By Allergies Immured, John Bradshaw Dec 2018

Tennyson, By Allergies Immured, John Bradshaw

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Window bound I sit and ponder Letting my sheltered eyes go wander.


Contributors, Westview Staff Dec 2018

Contributors, Westview Staff

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Heterochromia, John Tavares Dec 2018

Heterochromia, John Tavares

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This short fiction, with a dystopic vision, is set in a future Toronto, devastated by social unrest and a nuclear disaster, while the action of the story explores a retired librarian’s conflict with a repressive censorship authority.


For Joe Conley, Ike Godsey On The Waltons 1928-2013, David Vancil Dec 2018

For Joe Conley, Ike Godsey On The Waltons 1928-2013, David Vancil

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In your favorite episode, you are past your prime


In The Pacific: A Wwii Photograph, David Vancil Dec 2018

In The Pacific: A Wwii Photograph, David Vancil

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In the black and white snapshot, my father and my uncle, sweaty from volleyball, stand side-by-side


My Father's Wars, Sheila A. Murphy Dec 2018

My Father's Wars, Sheila A. Murphy

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Longer now than sixty years ago, dying in a veterans’ hospital, committed by my mother


Petticoat In The Navy: My Mother's War, Sheila A. Murphy Dec 2018

Petticoat In The Navy: My Mother's War, Sheila A. Murphy

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In 1918 Julia Lehan, age nineteen, lives in Roxbury


Well Of Despair, Sarah Brown Weitzman Dec 2018

Well Of Despair, Sarah Brown Weitzman

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As a follow up to that classic


I Remember Rodney, David Vancil Dec 2018

I Remember Rodney, David Vancil

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You admitted you’d abused your body


Half-Way, A. S. More, Edward Wells Dec 2018

Half-Way, A. S. More, Edward Wells

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This distance is real.


Plowing, Kevin Oakes Dec 2018

Plowing, Kevin Oakes

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As a kid growing up on a farm You are expected to learn how to plow


Nowhere Is Nowhere, Catherine Mccraw Dec 2018

Nowhere Is Nowhere, Catherine Mccraw

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People often speak of rural Western Oklahoma as the middle of nowhere.


The Patience Of Trees, Jill Jones Dec 2018

The Patience Of Trees, Jill Jones

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We compare ourselves to trees, Draw analogies and metaphors for human experience


The Valley, Sheila Cohlmia Dec 2018

The Valley, Sheila Cohlmia

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I wander through a deep narrow valley


September's Grapes, Sheila A. Murphy Dec 2018

September's Grapes, Sheila A. Murphy

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There’s grief from harvest early, or too late: bitter, hard, or over-ripened fruit.


The Skaters, Matthew Brennan Dec 2018

The Skaters, Matthew Brennan

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As in a winter scene of the Flemish Masters, Skaters glide like swans across the surface Of Lake of the Isles


Big, James E. Fowler Dec 2018

Big, James E. Fowler

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The setting sun casts a Giacometti shadow before me.


The Ymca, Cal Castle Dec 2018

The Ymca, Cal Castle

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Feet trampling, Treading upon The hardwood terrain.


Dennis Ross Poetry Submission, Dennis Ross Sep 2018

Dennis Ross Poetry Submission, Dennis Ross

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Silencer, Green Apples, October Sunset, Last Day, Birds And Trees, Richard Dinges Jr Sep 2018

Silencer, Green Apples, October Sunset, Last Day, Birds And Trees, Richard Dinges Jr

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Oh No, Guadalajara Won't Do, Beth E. Goldner Sep 2018

Oh No, Guadalajara Won't Do, Beth E. Goldner

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Poetry Re-Submission - Loren Smith, Loren Smith Sep 2018

Poetry Re-Submission - Loren Smith, Loren Smith

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Two Poems, Scott Thomas Sep 2018

Two Poems, Scott Thomas

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