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Leslie Grollman

"On weekends, your home verves with friends in and out of bathing suits or gossip. Barbecues, teas and your famous lemon sponge. There is laughter and splashing."

Ace Boggess

"If I added voice to musicians in their choir, / my instrument would whine complaints. / Annexed by the troupe, / I fingered quick approximations of each note."

Andre F. Peltier

"Late lunch on picnic tables / floating above Bar Harbor. / Garlic butter bliss. / My first taste of lobster. / A buck a piece in those days."

Andre F. Peltier

"The initial had been used / to go into debt / three or four times over. / The initial needed to die."

Patrick Beath

"Yellows of sunrise and sunset, mine and his. / Sulfured pulp and ligneous page. / The word is, he’d have had / no patience for this:"

Patrick Beath

"This may be accompanied by / a sense of exhalation, of / relief, of surrender. You may / find yourself succumbing / to an impossible closeness."

Keertana Sreekumar

She was born to a lineage of farmworkers—people whose heads knew the burning sun like one knows the weight of their own stomach.

Edgar Medina

"I stumble out of the grocery / store with a bouquet of a dozen / roses cuddled closely to my heart / feeling the desperation / creep from out the many / holes misplaced within / my clothing."

Michael McGuire

But for the moment I was adrift. Whatever usual anchor holding me in place, keeping me tethered to whatever temporal geography I occupied had been pulled up and I’d been cast unto uncharted seas.

Garry Shore and Greig Parker

"Think of all those composite characters in the based-on-a-true-story movies you have watched on TV, people whose tireless efforts and selfless sacrifices to right injustices have been edited out for the sake of simplifying the truth in the name of entertainment. But memories have value. They are not things to discard, distort, or destroy without regard."