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Issue 102

Ava C. Cipri: Red Phase, Day 8

September 6, 2022 by PBQ Leave a Comment

11am During workshop, everyone mute when not sharing, please. Lex reads her poem on Zoom. A distressed squawking masks her words. What’s that shrill noise? She removes her glasses, looks into the lens, my parakeet. This isn’t delightful chirping chatter, this isn’t song. The insistent screeching grows longer, louder. Trudy’s mate died…needs another companion. I’d […]

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Sarah A. Chavez: Dear Carole, I look out the window

September 6, 2022 by PBQ Leave a Comment

Hoping the reflection of the sun will glint off my hair, flood your ghost memory, and you will feel the tingling touch of my fingers on your phantom limbs and remember you meant to haunt me. That you’ll remember despite the door-slamming and lips of so many others, neither of us wanted this.

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Kitty Carpenter: She Kindly Stopped

September 6, 2022 by PBQ Leave a Comment

Even the cedars along the highway are diseased, each tree split down the middle half brown, branches bare and dry as finger bones, the other half still green as ever as if Death were interrupted halfway through, her work calling her somewhere more urgent. Perhaps the diseased branches of someone’s lungs were filling, filling and […]

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Alan Basting: A World Announces Affection in December’s Snow and Fog

September 6, 2022 by PBQ Leave a Comment

Locomotives In the guise of oxen   Enter the village with humility, Heads down, sweaty   From chugging up the street, Hauling the resurrection   Bells to the chapel. Lowing, gospel sounds   Drift like incense Among the faithful   Wrapped In frost-crusted robes. * Mistaking song For sorrow and longing   For notes of […]

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Nikki Ummel

March 18, 2022 by PBQ Leave a Comment

Nikki Ummel is a queer writer, editor, and educator at the University of New Orleans. Nikki has been published or is forthcoming in The Adroit, Hobart, PANK, The Georgia Review, and more. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize in Poetry and twice awarded an Academy of American Poets Award. She is currently the […]

Filed Under: Contributors 101, Contributors 102, Issue 101, Issue 102 Tagged With: Nikki Ummel

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