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ATTENTION IS PRAYER CURATIVE

Jenny Grassl

burn cinnamon your remorse
I will attend your systole and flu

favor speckle for heart take foxglove
burden in its tonic please don’t die

I do beseech you beloved and strange
bowed with soft shoulders of penitence

charcoal absorbing nausea petting your dog
wring hands sanitized wash wash

—at Roque Bluffs state park
stone stone & skipping barefoot tender
on stone sand & heat / sharpness or roundness guiding
to go on wanderlooking
but not looking for
no not to find but what’s now found & now, seeing
I see
& if I bend to touch a rock to palm
a rock the wind wobbletosses a force

Chance Finds

Forester McClatchey

It begins with a lump of peat dredged from the bottom of the North Sea. The fishermen look
at it tolerantly. Peat, driftwood, and gulper sharks are not uncommon to catch. Today the men
are bored so they crack open the lump of peat, and a harpoon falls out. It is made of red deer
antler and gleams like burnished ebony.

The fishermen now understand that they are pulling food from a tomb.

What would Martin Luther King, Jr. think of the future?

Raj Tawney

What would Dr. King think of the future?
Would he find his dream becoming a reality or just a VR experience?

Would he see a united front
against oppression and inequality?

Or a segregation of beliefs
of classes and of colors

Buying American

S.M. Ellis

Don’t forget the foreman’s Honda.
They snowplowed the doors

& let him freeze. Tuxedo Justice,
mom said. Let him

die by the swoop of the wrecking ball
when this place shuts down. Let him

miss the earthquake in Bangladesh
on morning news, the cartoons,

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ATTENTION IS PRAYER CURATIVE

For the Post-Anthropocene

Chance Finds

What would Martin Luther King, Jr. think of the future?

Buying American

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