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we don’t spend our lives in the belly of the fish

May 16, 2025/in Amuse-Bouche / translated from French by Gabriella Bedetti and Don Boes

we don’t spend our lives in the belly of the fish
water has never been older
we return to the rites
rather than remember to
escape from the moments that cannot
catch our breath

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Fourberie

May 2, 2025/in Amuse-Bouche / Terese Coe

One might wish
to figure out
the measure of the sure,
the doubt.
The pleasure of
an hour’s space.

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Vernacular

April 18, 2025/in Amuse-Bouche / Mary Morris

I am hungry for a language
from the mouth of a foreign country

where sound is a fountain I drink from
in small increments.

Where the word for flowers melt

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Dollface

April 11, 2025/in Amuse-Bouche / Katie Phillips

Eleanor is outside on the porch screaming obscenities at the neighborhood. I know I should pull her back inside, but I choose instead to peer out the living room window, half my face shrouded by curtain, and watch everyone’s reactions. Eleanor is ninety-two so no one dares confront her or call the cops. All the neighbors just assume she’s gone senile and doesn’t know where she is or what she’s doing. But she knows. Everything Eleanor does is deliberate, and usually premeditated at that.

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Two poems by Alisha Erin Hillam

April 4, 2025/in Amuse-Bouche / Alisha Erin Hillam

He plays Lysenko every evening until eight,
standing out from the other buskers
in his pressed three-piece suit, white hair garnishing
his temples, serious and straight-backed.

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Two Poems Translated by A.Z. Foreman

March 21, 2025/in Amuse-Bouche / A.Z. Foreman

Two poems translated by A. Z. Foreman: The Heart’s Voice by Abraham Sutzkever and Night of the Fourth: A Remembrance by Victor Hugo.
The heart’s voice gave command: once more believe in that debased word “Justice”. Son of the lion, stand and war against your slavery. You must.

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Recertified

March 7, 2025/in Amuse-Bouche / Alina Nguyễn

My mother goes to the Hawaii Supermarket
& abandons groceries at the checkout.
She had spent over an hour picking cherimoyas
for the altar, cereal for Johnny, Coke
for me, raw fish… Her EBT declines.

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Two Poems by John Dorroh

February 28, 2025/in Amuse-Bouche / John Dorroh

When a full orange moon shakes bats from its belly,
when the sky splits open like a busted suture
and pink babies fall into the cumulus cloud bank
above the field of zinnias behind your mother’s house,

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Neighbourhood Watch

February 21, 2025/in Amuse-Bouche / Sasha Carney

The four hundred and thirty-second monthly meeting of the Stoneborough Neighbourhood Association was slightly better attended than the four hundred and thirty-first. Joanne had taken her usual seat in the back-left of the Stoneborough Library Community Service Hall…

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St. Agnes , Patron Saint of Helping Hands [Those Who Are the Least of Those Amongst Us]

February 14, 2025/in Amuse-Bouche / henry 7. reneau, jr.

You were born on a tropical winter’s day in 1931 , as generous in spirit

as the unexpected gift at an unexpected moment , like Mighty Mouse or dynamite

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Lengua

February 7, 2025/in Amuse-Bouche / Jonathan Fletcher

My tongue betrays me.

Though light pink,
it may as well be white.
I may as well be, too.

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What Issues from a Twilight Sleep (c. 1959)

January 31, 2025/in Amuse-Bouche / S.P. Henry, Jr.

Come lie back now, breathe deep and take the gas—
It’s just your water breaking, not your bones.
You women you you never think to ask

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how to get out of a funk

November 29, 2024/in Amuse-Bouche / Jonathan Focht

lament.

find a firebrand and follow,

maybe fondle them. steep

a cup of tea and blow on it

’til your jowls turn sour

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Big Brother

November 15, 2024/in Amuse-Bouche / Daniela Petrova

I was the only one of my friends without a cassette player, except for Lily, whose father was the head of the Party’s neighborhood branch. Even if they had the money, he would have never allowed it, fearing that music from the West would poison her mind with capitalist ideas.

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Poems

October 18, 2024/in Amuse-Bouche / Caroline Plasket

Brilliant, she thought, studying her own face. Following

the lines like little eroded paths down a hill of dirt.

At the bottom of anything is the top of something.

Before bed she pulls the blinds down in specific order,

then she taps each wall three times with her right pointer finger.

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Fragments

September 20, 2024/in Amuse-Bouche / Judy Kaber

Grief invades

the thin columns of days. A phone

rings. Tree bark flakes

away. I become

salt on tongue, raw

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Poems

August 30, 2024/in Amuse-Bouche / Pamela Manasco

That August I chewed a pill

and slept. A green dragonfly lit

my daughter’s hand on fire. Her new

school planted tens of thousands

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On the Sidewalk

August 16, 2024/in Amuse-Bouche / Corey Mesler

The colorful balloons

above the baby’s head.

He reaches out

for his mother’s face.

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Winter and After

July 19, 2024/in Amuse-Bouche / Jennifer M Phillips

Because all the birds do not fall

frozen from the trees,

and the squirrels do wake in time, most of them,

from their torpor, to the memory of nuts

under the snow lying inert for the whole bitter season;

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Reflection Sonnet

May 31, 2024/in Amuse-Bouche / Kenton K. Yee

Listen, my dog likes to stare
into mirrors. She’s not narcissistic—
she believes her reflection’s a captive
companion confined behind glass,
a trouble-free and safe friend

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Migraine Abecedarian

May 17, 2024/in Amuse-Bouche / Therese Gleason

Calm app, chiropractic, codeine, Coke (the drink, not the drug, although Freud took cocaine for his), coffee, Compazine suppository (anti-emetic), counseling, craniosacral therapy, dairy-free, darkness, denial, driving myself to the ER with a barf bag, earplugs, energy healing, exercise, Fioricet (butalbital, acetaminophen, and caffeine), Flonase, ginger ale, gluten-free diet, hot bath with ice pack at back of neck, hot shower

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Christmas Eve, 1999

April 19, 2024/in Amuse-Bouche / Hannah Utter

Thursday nights are always a little tense, but especially now, less than a week before Christmas. We are on edge; the clots of snow in the road, the family time, none of it helps. We meet in a classroom in the community center at 8pm. The rest of the building is dark, yawning shadows cast over our faces. It smells like paint and gym ball plastic.

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Pelvis IV

March 15, 2024/in Amuse-Bouche / Rachel White

Through the tender bone

you only see a gaping hole,

point out just how hollow

this pelvis is—so full of sky,

the moon phasing,

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Take This to the Pharmacy

February 16, 2024/in Amuse-Bouche / Jason Masino

Rx:

men’s daily multivitamin/one per day in the morning

Zoloft/100 mg per day in the morning, watch for signs of hypomania

Atenolol/50 mg per day, perhaps at night, for blood pressure

monthly massage membership: $60/one hour session, once a month

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Emma Chan

enchanted

November 24, 2023/in Amuse-Bouche / Emma Chan

in the dark, i find a new boy’s tongue in my mouth like the searching hand

of a clock: the witching hour, the rhythm of his hips, magic

against mine. sweat pools at his nape, soaking his dress shirt,

but i grip a handful of hairs, pulling his sour heat into my palm.

when he tucks his name into my ear, the syllables bounce from me

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I Hope So, I’m Working on It, We’ll See

October 20, 2023/in Amuse-Bouche / Edward Daschle

“When did you start climbing?” Evgeniy asked me while we lay in his bed after showering together. One of the things that kept me coming back to him was how he liked to clean up immediately after we were done. He did not linger in filth.
“Come with me next time I go,” I said instead of answering, taking on the active voice to combat the antisocial, post-coital placidity.

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Exercise

September 11, 2023/in Amuse-Bouche / Cecilia Savala

Exercise: v. middling, meddling, 500 years ago—To put into action. Circa 1340: to raise from the dead. Circa 1729: to exercise one’s tongue. To practice one’s genius. To exercise one’s pipes. To bring to bear. Circa 1738, of Psalms and Hymns. A prompt of no serious exchange—except one’s rights. Take advantage of property laws. Speak out. Hear me out: i.e. to exercise power.

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LitDish: Ten Questions With Isabel Yap

September 1, 2023/in Amuse-Bouche / Interviewed by Gail Vannelli

Isabel Yap is a Filipino writer of fiction and poetry. Her debut short story collection, Never Have I Ever (Small Beer Press, 2021), contains thirteen unique and extraordinary stories based on Filipino culture, history, traditions, legends, and mythology. Full of monsters, magic, and miracles, each story has its own touches of fantasy, horror, mystery, and/or hope that will keep readers enthralled.

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Pawing the Ground

July 23, 2023/in Amuse-Bouche / Laurie Granieri

The year I turn 9, my father hurls a telephone across the kitchen. My dad has just received news of a friend’s death from brain cancer. I suspect he figures the receiver might as well die too, and wound the kitchen on its way out. By the time he is shoved up against his own cancer diagnosis, 17 years later, my father is too weak to weaponize telephones.

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LitDish: Ten Questions With Isabel Quintero

May 26, 2023/in Amuse-Bouche / Interviewed by Gail Vannelli

Young Adult is a privilege. When you write for them you have to be hopeful because your audience still has a lot of living to do. When a kid reads my work I feel lucky that they read my words, that they entered a small world I created for a little bit.

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Friday Lunch! A serving of contemporary essays published the second Friday of every month.

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Meeting My Child Self at the Trauma Play

May 9, 2025/in Blog / Gale Naylor
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Products of Our Environment

March 14, 2025/in Blog / Mitko Grigorov
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Mother-to-Mother: An Open Letter about White Privilege and Fragility

November 22, 2024/in Blog / Dr. Valerie Nyberg
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Midnight Snack

Take a bite out of these late night obsessions.

Tonight’s bites:

The dreams in which I’m (not) dying

April 25, 2025/in Midnight Snack / paparouna
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On The Map

March 28, 2025/in Midnight Snack / Ariadne Will
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Disappear Where? A Meditation on the Lost and Getting Lost

November 1, 2024/in Midnight Snack / Reid Delehanty
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School Lunch

An occasional Wednesday series dishing up today’s best youth writers.

Today’s slice:

I’ve Stayed in the Front Yard

May 12, 2021/in School Lunch, School Lunch 2021 / Brendan Nurczyk
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A Communal Announcement

April 28, 2021/in School Lunch, School Lunch 2021 / Isabella Dail
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Seventeen

April 14, 2021/in School Lunch, School Lunch 2021 / Abigail E. Calimaran
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