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Reading at work, listening to music during labor, swatting gnats while meditating
July 2026
Puzzle Pieces
He places the misshapen square / in the hole of my face—how easy to complete, to mend us, to turn / what was missing into what is found.
July 2026Soup
At the restaurant with white linens / and candles in glass cups, I remember, / my grandfather sent back the soup.
July 2026The Eleventh Street Irregulars
After long afternoons restoring the decrepit boat, we watched trains / pass and deciphered riddles in bottle caps we twisted free / with empty hands and our ready, useless strength.
July 2026A Thousand Words
A Thousand Words features photography so rich with narrative that it tells a story all on its own.
July 2026
Hoddernot
We posted pictures of ourselves in uniform, desperate to benefit from serving in a war many of us didn’t understand, desperate for a connection and for someone to acknowledge us and, ultimately, acknowledge that a war was going on, that it was real.
July 2026
No Politics
Rabbi Shmuley went over the ground rules: “We are here to learn from each other, not to argue. Certainly not to compete. Don’t deny anyone’s experience. Don’t deny anyone’s subjectivity. And, of course, no politics.”
July 2026
A Poem for World Infertility Awareness Month
Infertility is a struggle many face in silence, without the support of their community. Kelly Grace Thomas’s poem “To the Woman Sitting Next to Me in the Infertility Clinic” captures that sense of isolation as well as the impulse to reach out to one another. Though the poem won’t appear in the magazine until later this year, we are sharing it online now to coincide with World Infertility Awareness Month.
The Empty Room Inside Each of Us
Crumb is always right, always the one telling the story, always the one who turns the drab, lonesome plains they call home into a world that’s dramatic and necessary.
June 2026
City Chickens
I never thought // I’d end up like this, domesticated as a pet lamb, / with a mate who worries our hundred-year-old house // needs new everything, shingles to foundation.
June 2026
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