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Worth The Weight

January 17, 2022/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2021 / Margaret Adams Birth

I cocoon myself
from memory’s chill
grip—wrap
layer upon layer around
heart and bones; flesh upon flesh. . .

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Henandez, Author Headshot

Unrealized Lineages / Anthroposymbiosis

December 20, 2021/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2021 / Nicole Arocho Hernández

Water is the first mother
but thunder roams in my body
for days before it
cracks me open:
horificio

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Alex Starr, Author Headshot

Blue Cat / So

December 7, 2021/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2021 / Alex Starr

You blue cat
you’re just waiting
for your moontrane
to arrive
you feel anonymous

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Brain with poetry on the lobes and thumbtacks floating above

Moving Target

November 29, 2021/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2021 / Mackenzie Moore

I like to know what to anticipate
little tacks . . . thinking about
what I didn’t know I
needed to worry about

I didn’t know you then. . .

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Author Headshot

Time in Mind / I Saw a Mountain

November 22, 2021/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2021 / Walter Weinschenk

I have in mind a kind of time
That can’t be measured by clock
Or monitored by calendar;
Time that isn’t tucked away
In packages of seconds, days or centuries,

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Anne Morris, Author Headshot

This moment hinges

November 18, 2021/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2021 / Cindy Zhao

on the evening, later,
at the second we realize the sun still falls.
At the mercy of the name
we will give it when language
turns brittle to touch. Later,

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Narrow path in woods

Never Mercy

November 9, 2021/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2021 / Mazzy Sleep

Don’t let go
Those words.
Let go of what?
I cast her a look.
Her feet

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The Mahanas

November 2, 2021/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2021 / Kendra Craighead

Thalassa was born at sea, on the waves of a storm. Because of this, she loved the ocean. Sometimes, it felt as though her veins were full of seawater instead of blood. […]

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Author HeadshotLizabeth Berkeley

Mating Dance

October 25, 2021/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2021 / Charles Haddox

Gonzalo de la Peña, a forty-year-old schoolteacher from our village, kept crickets in little bamboo cages that he purchased from a roving vendor while visiting the Capitol. He kept the crickets as a hobby, though he had little time for anything but teaching (he was very conscientious) and running an orange juice stand at the market, a tiring job he performed day after day to earn extra money for his family and tedious in-laws [. . .]

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Wildfire

October 18, 2021/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2021 / Gabby Vachon

I walk the cradle to the grave.
The bassinet soaks my hair like hot foam
Like a drowning dance, my toes are pointed in my shoes. [. . .]

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Holes

October 12, 2021/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2021 / Scout Roux

You are digging a hole. You’re not sure why, but it suits you. It makes it easier that you like the people you do it with. Not that there’s ever more than one person to a hole—a hole is a completely solitary thing—but the ones digging nearby, you think they make good conversation. […]

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Asha Thanki, Author Headshot

śōka | શોક | mourning

October 4, 2021/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2021 / Asha Thanki

Do not go to a birthday party the night your grandmother dies. Do not pick up a six-pack of White Claws (black cherry) on the way and then drink four of them while you look into your partner’s eyes defiantly, a challenge. Do not ask him if he will stop you, if he will nudge you toward considering the line between grief and excess [. . .]

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Neonatology / Kindergarten

September 3, 2021/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2021 / Holly Painter

We call him Hugo Apollo
a science fictional name
perfect for the first space
he inhabits after birth, [. . .]

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Cathleen Calbert, Author Headshot

Quarantine in Spring / Breaking Up

August 16, 2021/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2021 / Cathleen Calbert

The earth has washed its lovely hands of us. Enough!

so sayeth the world. Knock it off. Sit still and think

hard about all that you have done. […]

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Katie Kemple's, Author Photo

Growth / Homework

August 9, 2021/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2021 / Katie Kemple

“The year when grandma turned one hundred, we 
could not see her. Our pandemic eyes not 
yet sprouted.”

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What Boys Think About Dreams/ The Wisdom of Photons/ The Fireflies

May 10, 2021/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2021 / Matthew James Friday

I wake up in the middle of the night. A single star winks at me. Photons fired out thousands, maybe millions of years ago, skimming space, slipping solar systems, sneaking past planets—one true beam sometimes bent by the gulp of gravity,mbut always adhering to its lucky destination.

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bholman

May 3, 2021/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2021 / Katie Burgess

I made a new email to be professional—obviously I couldn’t go around applying for jobs as , and my cousin wasn’t going to keep paying for that domain name anyway. So I picked something regular. I tried my first initial + last name as my username, but bholman was taken. So then I put my first two initials, and presto, I became blholman, employable person. […]

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The Sky / Weightless Treasure / A Neon Body / If I Die

April 26, 2021/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2021 / David Hostetter

The plunging water, the plunging light: replenished, stupefied and serene. It is so wide-open that what looks and feels like endless light shines through, then a glinting truth that looks like madness, the bald white hemorrhage of a gravity moving through the moon. . .

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Egg, Paper, Arson

April 19, 2021/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2021 / Patricia Caspers

The salon burned down just before they moved in, and Shimmery would always associate the stench of burning plastic with the summer they lived on that hill. Her mom said it was arson, but Shimmery didn’t know who Arson was or what he had against manicures and perms.

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After His Passing

April 12, 2021/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2021 / Andrew Bertaina

After her husband dies, and the children have helped reshuffle the house, moved out his worn cardigans, his weathered golf bag, his collection of bird skulls, she feels acutely alone. Mornings now, she reads thrillers in the shade of an elm as light dapples the grass. Sometimes his ghost putters around the yard, bending slowly, tracing the ground for signs of tulips. The ghost is a marginal gardener, perhaps something in the afterlife impairs your spatial reasoning.

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The Bone Essay, Prayer Before the Decorative Fireplace

April 5, 2021/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2021 / Anna Binkovitz

The rain sets its liquid feet down on the pavement ahead of me as I waver my way down the block
with one crutch tucked into me like a loved one.[…]

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Post-Covid Wedding Planning / Inauguration 2021 / In the Beginning

March 29, 2021/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2021 / Sarah Dickenson Snyder

I’m imagining a celebration of love of course, but also of the return to being able to love with our arms, our lips, our bodies close and unmasked.

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Taxidermied Jesus

March 22, 2021/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2021 / Yvonne Amey

Pastor says we’re all dead inside. That death is akin to riding a seatless bike. That death is the sound of rain and falling. It is the peculiar way mobile Jesus smiles at me from his particle-board cross. It is how my father died drunk and alone
in Hank’s used car lot.

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GRAVIDA 0, PARA 0

March 8, 2021/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2021 / Kim Roberts

Once I told my doctor if only I was not estranged from my mother, I’d know what to expect from menopause. “That’s ridiculous,” the doctor said. “Your mother had children. You’ve never even been pregnant. Her experience would have no bearing on yours. Feel badly about the estrangement if you like, but not because of this.”

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I run from myself and my body aches / To Those That Came / How to Make a Man

March 8, 2021/in Amuse-Bouche 2021 / Gustavo Barahona-López

Before me, I see dandelions displayed like jewelry. Each atop a hand carved wooden stand. I blow into each in turn. Some make declarations, some scream or roar, some converse and others lecture, others say nothings in the ear.

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Live Without / I Need Your Love, Too

March 1, 2021/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2021 / E. Kristin Anderson

This year the number I call the most now is the pharmacy. I have to wonder who you were when I was born because I feel you in both root and stem but I’ll never be sorry to have eaten the sky.

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The Whistle

February 22, 2021/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2021 / Khristian Mecom

The whistle had filled Yara’s dreams for a long time now—ever since she first heard it in the form of an incoming bullet that lodged itself in her best friend’s ribcage. More than anything she saw or heard that day, it was the whistle that most haunted her. It was the first time she understood that the promise of imminent chaos was always somehow worse than the actual chaos itself.[…]

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Wed

February 15, 2021/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2021 / Mel Ruth

Posed beside her husband, is this what my great-grandmother feared, bleached hand pressed gently against cherry oak skin?

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Litdish: On the Ways We Access Beauty and Love: An Interview with Jeri Frederickson

February 8, 2021/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2021 / Interviewed by Loumarie Rodriguez

People need to be seen and heard. There needs to be space where survivors can decide what healing looks and feels like for them. Awakenings is one of those places. That solidarity component is vital. Even if their experiences look different, we must get to the core of what it means to be human.

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An Afternoon of Erasure / An Anthology of Endlessness

February 1, 2021/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2021 / Siddharth Dasgupta

I split the pockets of stillness left hovering on a naked afternoon. Halves drop like discarded agreements—one half in the floundering arms of the sea, another in the blanks of this book I’ve beenmpretending to read, if at all.

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

Today’s course:

How to Kill a Cat, or How to Prepare for CATastrophe

March 10, 2023/in Blog / Meghan McGuire
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The Night I Want to Remember

December 16, 2022/in 2023ws-migration, Blog / Sanaz Tamjidi
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From Paper to the Page

November 18, 2022/in 2023ws-migration, Blog / Annie Bartos
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Midnight Snack

Take a bite out of these late night obsessions.

Tonight’s bites:

Point Break & Top Gun Are More Than Homoerotic Action Movies

March 3, 2023/in Midnight Snack / Michaela Emerson
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October 7, 2022/in Midnight Snack / Megan Vasquez
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The Worth of a Billionaire’s Words

September 23, 2022/in Midnight Snack / Kirby Chen Mages
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An occasional Wednesday series dishing up today’s best youth writers.

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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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