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brick by brick
Melissa Lemay the school was builtwe sat in classroomseach day, rote memorizationof facts and figuresbut never learning about interest ratesor mortgages,real-world, real-life things we would use(not) taught to thinkin dewey decimal systematicallyingrained with fractureand parliament defined by etiquette and social order i took out my retainerand placed it onmy lunch tray, and threw it in the… Continue reading
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Thoughts from the other side of the Mid Atlantic Rift
Sue McBean Only an ocean away.On the “scatter my ashes’ island.Across the Atlantic. Rathlin.Eider ducks coo, tide ebbs and flows,and oyster catchers scream alarm. The soft eiders,huddle close for safety in numbers.They seem to fly under water.Menacing gulls circle overhead.There are no chicks yetfor airborne rats to play tyrant over. They’llcross the Sound to scavenge… Continue reading
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Record of Dissent: Poems of Protest in an Authoritarian Age
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