Her First Word

October 2015 | back-issues, poetry | 0 comments

Her first word was material. The adults wondered why she skipped all the warm-up words like mama and daddy. So odd, they commented. Why did that word emerge first from the buttery spread of childhood? Her home smelled like codfish balls and beer. The Mona Lisa, torn from a magazine, hung on a…

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Issue 105, Jan 2023

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Featuring: Issue 105, published January 2023, features works of poetry, flash fiction, short nonfiction, and photography by L. Ward Abel, Evan Anders, Nancy Connors, Diana Dinverno, Melissa Goodnight, Carol Hamilton, Ditta Baron Hoeber, Tess Kelly, Robert Knox , Bernard Knudsen, Kathy Kremins, Clare Marsh, Mary McGinnis, Dawn Miller, Michelle Morouse, Larena Nellies-Ortiz, Lorrie Ness, Robert Nisbet, John Perrault, Patrick T. Reardon, Lisa Rua-Ware, Michael Salcman, Rich Spang, Joshua St. Claire, Eugene Stevenson, Pamela Wax, Ann Weil, and Evan Morgan Williams.