She mumbles into tubesand silver scissor.They cuther hair:on the floor old dull needles. I think of my motherbraiding my hairhalf-asleep, her fingers weavingin the dark. Above the floor area mother’s fingers moving in andout of the silver hair. The nurse sweepsit into a bucket, the hand’s ghost,the girl’s hair, their endlessinexorable braid. by Brittany N. Jaekel Brittany is currently…
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Issue 106, published April 2023, features works of poetry, flash fiction, short nonfiction, and photography by Elizabeth Curley, Johanna DeMay, Alan Elyshevitz, J.V. Foerster, Lena N. Gemmer, Kimberly Goode, Ken Haas, John Robert Harvey, Gloria Heffernan, Ken Hines, Richard Holinger, Kate Hopper, Jennifer Randall Hotz, Michael Hower, DB Jonas, Eun Seo Kim, Cyn Kitchen, Mary Dean Lee, Paul Macomber, Victoria Melekian, Jahin Claire Oh, Hari B Parisi, Min Sung Park, Julia Poole, Paul Rabinowitz, Caroline Reddy, Lisa Rigge, Jim Ross, Yujin Suh, Ron Theel, Cristina Trapani-Scott, and Joan M. White.
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