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Irises Planted On A Grave, Gordon Grice May 2019

Irises Planted On A Grave, Gordon Grice

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The irises lick the wind with fragrant tongues…


New Barista, Dennis Ross May 2019

New Barista, Dennis Ross

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She moves like a half-grown colt, all legs and skinny arms…


On Wings, Richard Dinges Jr. May 2019

On Wings, Richard Dinges Jr.

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Each day, more flies descend and buzz my porch. I bathe.


Part Ii, Diane Glancy May 2019

Part Ii, Diane Glancy

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The Erring Need of Narrative


Prayers Coagulate Around A Woman On Her Porch, Henry D. Goldkamp May 2019

Prayers Coagulate Around A Woman On Her Porch, Henry D. Goldkamp

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Southern static : pink tongue : dewy ears : seagulls yelling Wal-Mart


Princesses, Donna L. Emerson May 2019

Princesses, Donna L. Emerson

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First grade girls are deciding who’s a princess. They say I’m not one.


Promise, Jack Cooper May 2019

Promise, Jack Cooper

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Her hands looked old boney and bruised but her face young her cheeks blushed her eyes wandering


Skippings Rocks, Chad W. Lutz May 2019

Skippings Rocks, Chad W. Lutz

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There’s a place in town where the only two roads meet, marked by an old sycamore. Its bark is blotchy, and the few limbs it has left reach for the sky like the pleading arms of a dying man.


Sunday Morning, Matthew C. Brennan May 2019

Sunday Morning, Matthew C. Brennan

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Back home from Kroger, I sense that something’s terribly wrong: five squad cars flashing red cordon the street, and yellow tape extends from a fencepost to a worksite shed across from us.


The Pie Lady, Shiann Dawson May 2019

The Pie Lady, Shiann Dawson

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You again. You don’t even remember me.


The Yellow Porch Swing, Aimee Klein May 2019

The Yellow Porch Swing, Aimee Klein

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The smell of honeysuckle carried on a breeze the soft squeak


Trash, Eleanore Lee May 2019

Trash, Eleanore Lee

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To find where the Johnsons used to live, You have to turn up the old dirt road, Hang left, then go on past the splintered gate


Villanelle: Flood Time, Eleanore Lee May 2019

Villanelle: Flood Time, Eleanore Lee

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The skies above just opened up, hear how the torrent roars… On city streets, through parks and lots, our stains are washed away.


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.


I Remember Rodney, David Vancil Dec 2018

I Remember Rodney, David Vancil

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You admitted you’d abused your body


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


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


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


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


The Ymca, Cal Castle Dec 2018

The Ymca, Cal Castle

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Feet trampling, Treading upon The hardwood terrain.


Qwerty, James E. Fowler Dec 2018

Qwerty, James E. Fowler

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


Big, James E. Fowler Dec 2018

Big, James E. Fowler

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The setting sun casts a Giacometti shadow before me.


Contributors, Westview Staff Dec 2018

Contributors, Westview Staff

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No abstract provided.


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.


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


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