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Summer 2007

 

 

ESSAY

Altered Landscape  On my last visit home, Mom showed me her coal tattoo. She drew my fingers to a black spot no wider than a pencil lead that I'd never noticed just under the skin of her right temple, the point of impact where one of her brothers — she couldn't remember which — had chucked a lump of coal at her when they were kids.

 

POETRY

Ancestral Morning, by Brian Lowry

 

POETRY

How This Had to End, by Rose McLarney

 

THE HALF EMPTY MASON JAR
Scrambling for Satisfaction: Blame it on TC
  "Mom, you're never satisfied," my 17-year-old daughter squawked. Sarah had overheard me grousing to a friend on the phone about a recent trip. 

 

 

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