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To be in the Summer **CONTEST WINNER**

シェイクスピア閉じて夏を志す | I closed poems of Shakespeare | And I made up my mind | To be in the summer

pregnant woman

On the Same Bittersweet Day

On the same bittersweet day | I gave each a name | And loved each alike.| On the same bittersweet day, | I rocked a crib | And commissioned a grave.

push mower

The Space Between

Staring up at a velvet black sky, we watch millions of stars spark and swirl. On a quilt, soft and worn with years of washing and dreaming, we speak of the fate of humanity…

window building

Sav

I have a theory that the nicest rooms, those with the best views, go to the sickest patients. If my theory is correct, I’m fucked. My room is on the second floor…

woman on a beach gazing at the water

Dream Upon Dream

Tell me, in all your travels, have you ever seen the origin of the universe unfold before your eyes? I have… once. At night, a night on the Oregon coast.

box cutter

One Cut at a Time

Nerves danced beneath my skin, prickling and intensifying with each passing moment. The TV droned in the background.

woman writing in bed

Restive and Uprising

I slip through the conference hall as swiftly as my pumps allow, with a big smile and a wave to my venture capitalist buddies in back.

Tampon

Holes

I have to find new holes because the tampons need somewhere to go. They live everywhere:  every purse I own, the cup holders in my car, the pockets of…

basketball

Scented Beans Destroy Themselves

Chick Ernest had been chatting with other parents when his son nearly died. The basketball season ended around Thanksgiving and the Sharks went to Kat’s Kradle…