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In One of Night’s Anonymous Hours by Mary Makofske

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In One of Night’s Anonymous Hours

I lie awake hearing the wind,
a freight loaded up with the past.
No brakeman, no brakes, and the tracks
leading straight to my bed.

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Mary Makofske is the author of six books of poetry. Her latest are No Angels (Kelsay, 2023, nominated for the Eric Hoffer Award); The Gambler’s Daughter (Orchard Street Press, 2022); World Enough, and Time (Kelsay, 2017); and Traction (Ashland Poetry, 2011), winner of the Richard Snyder Prize. She received the 2024 William Matthews Prize from Asheville Poetry Review and has received first place prizes in Quiet Diamonds, Atlanta Review, New Millennium Writings, Lullwater Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, The Ledge, and Cumberland Poetry Review, and the Hudson-Fowler Prize for a five poem submission from Slant. marymakofske.com

Lovestruck by Julia Caroline Knowlton

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Lovestruck

All the arrows go
through me—sharp and gold.
Joy enters

(blind, uninvited violation)
as pure presence
from an innate place within.

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Julia Caroline Knowlton is a Professor of French and Creative Writing at Agnes Scott College in Atlanta. She has won two separate Georgia Author of the Year awards for her poetry. Her latest volume of poetry is a children’s book. She lives in Atlanta and Paris.

Two Poems by Brian Beatty

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Silhouettes

A half dozen hawks
floated in the white sky

above an anonymous
river’s rushing brown floodwaters.

The sun above that scene was blinding,
beating down, drying

the bank’s loose prairie sand into cement.

There I stood like a monument
to tourism, lost in my phone.

Just one dumb picture of the birds’
perfectly choreographed circles

was all I wanted.
But they were already gone.

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The Yawn

I’m so tired tonight
I worry I might

swallow the world.

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Brian Beatty is the author of five small press poetry collections and a spoken word album. Beatty’s poems have appeared in Appalachian Journal, Conduit, CutBank, Evergreen Review, Exquisite Corpse, Gulf Coast, Hobart, The Missouri Review, The Moth, ONE ART, The Quarterly, Rattle and The Southern Review.