Cover Art: Walker Evans, Gravestone, Louisiana, Gelatin silver print, 1935, 

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Blessing

for Minadora

​I love waking to good omens.

This morning smells like

perfume & gasoline,

flammable.

At the window,

I think of you and your

interminable patience,

and I wonder if it burns.

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I told the wind

of your hills full of flint

and your kindling konza.

Perhaps you will leave

longsuffering in ash

and go out into a new place,

demanding shelter.

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Tammy Bendetti yearns for the ocean from landlocked Colorado, where at least the pine forests sound like surf. She and her partner, Corey, have two small girls and live in a crooked blue-and-white house. You can find some of Tammy's recent work published in Bitopia, Alyss, and Virga.

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