I could hear cars at a stoplight.

In Ketoacidosis At Mass General Hospital
William Varner

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https://nationalpoetryreview.wordpress.com/issue-22-2024/william-varner/

Gold lame for a chocolate shake

Ode In Which Athena Tells Off Aphrodite At The Steak And Shake On Jackson Bluff Road
Barbara Hamby

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https://nationalpoetryreview.wordpress.com/issue-22-2024/barbara-hamby/

I don’t tell her I’m trying not to think

Someone Peed In Steph’s Car
Chrys Tobey

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https://nationalpoetryreview.wordpress.com/issue-22-2024/chrys-tobey/

His love for Steely Dan another kind of liturgy

Memorial
Michelle Bitting

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https://nationalpoetryreview.wordpress.com/issue-22-2024/michelle-bitting/

Coiled Rattlesnake, Endless Chain, Pincushion

Double Wedding Ring
Cindy Veach

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https://nationalpoetryreview.wordpress.com/issue-22-2024/cindy-veach/

If there is a God

Premise
Matt Dennison

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https://nationalpoetryreview.wordpress.com/issue-22-2024/matt-dennison/

like some unquiet spirit in Dante’s underworld

The King Is Dead
David Kirby

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https://nationalpoetryreview.wordpress.com/issue-22-2024/david-kirby/