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"the lonely blueberry" by Tara Labovich
i hear guys in suits are making
fruit illegal. they go ripping out
the woman-trees at the roots, calling
sustenance “mess!” yada, yada!
it’s so rare now to find fruit
in the mess. it’s so rare to find
sweetness sticking to pavement.
but! when
you do, it is always sacrament.
maybe it’s under the spared
trees at the edge of us all. maybe
"The Machines" by Katerina Sutton
Every month we followed Dad to the driveway and watched the delivery man haul another machine into the living room. There was a rowing machine and a stationary bicycle and an elliptical. Dad named them after women I didn’t recognize, always from the first half of the alphabet.
"The Cat Has a Smoking Problem" by Joshua Jones Lofflin
It’s been obvious for weeks now, the butts piling up beneath the ficus’s leaves or underneath the bed. When I start finding them in the corners of the kitchen, I finally say something to Lauren. She sighs, says she’ll have a word with him. Asks me not to make a big deal over it. Says he only has one or two when he’s stressed.
“He’s a cat,” I say. “What can he possibly be stressed about?”
