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Before

By VERONICA MATTABONI | 26 JUL 2017

By Viviane Sassen — Afternoon nap / Photo by Sarah © 2009 Sandor Weisz

The loft is filled with a shrill cooing.
My mother’s fuzzy silhouette rises,
Tells me to go back to sleep.
But I want to see the baby;
I’ve never heard a baby cry before.

Veronica Mattaboni is a fiction and poetry author from Pennsylvania. She graduated from West Chester University of Pennsylvania in 2016. Veronica's work has been featured on the Feminine Collective, Pen and Anvil Press, Heart Beings, and Daedalus. She has also worked as an Associate Editor with 823 on High, and as a volunteer at the Poetry by the Sea global conference.

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"Girlhood" and "Southern Charm"

By STEVIE EDWARDS

So you said I love you / into the seventh glass of dry wine, / as the hurricane declared your street / a river.

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Quick Change

By CALLISTA BUCHEN

There is body in the coat closet in the hall by the front door, body under the bed in plastic bins, a pile in the garage by the recycling bin.

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Cycles

By HAZEM FAHMY

Another brown body
hits the dust, / and our cries
dance,