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Joe Cottonwood | Poems on atonement…or not

Quinn is So Sorry Quinn is so sorry. When a full-grown German Shepherd bites a baby, the dog loses. Quinn knows the rules. His canine tooth ripped a small hole in baby’s cheek. Now all is confusion as Quinn grovels for forgiveness, baby cries in mother’s arms, mother dabs at the little spot of blood, no big deal. Baby crawling across the floor touched the food bowl while Quinn was […]

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Alan Walowitz | Yom Kippur dancing

I insist on a seat on the aisle, and don’t care how far back, long as I can get up and waltz away whenever I want, lay my prayer shawl neatly on the chair and head to the Men’s, or outside for air where I can check my phone– that’s the kind of Jew I am, tired of the old stand up, sit down, stand up again, and assess all […]

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Cheryl Redmon Dinger | A Place Called Truth

When you care to honor as prayer Grandmother Grandfather with the sun and the moon seven days a week and beyond grave you care… for a Native American When you believe in the spirit of God Creator of Earth and all natural things upon land with the curvature of a placid pond or the clear cool flowing waterfalls of a sandy stream the wake of a lake a rocky river […]

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Paula Rudnick | Femme fatale and house call

FEMME FATALE I wasn’t a feminist when I was young, before I found out about the bhurka’d women whose husbands came home to beat them and the Botox’d women whose husbands came home to screw the nanny. I didn’t know about the 10-year-olds raped by mothers’ boyfriends or the 14 year-olds pimped on city streets or the 20-year-olds stoned in villages for getting pregnant out of wedlock while their lovers […]

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