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Stand by Tina Em

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An erasure poem of Trump's deferred resignation letter he sent to federal employees. Poet Tina Em has created an erasure poem that speaks truth to power. Link to the letter: https://www.opm.gov/fork

Tina Em (she/her), born in poverty, raised in a bi-racial family, serves others through her professional life as an engineer and innovator in federal public health workforce, and in her personal life as a volunteer, tutor, and writer.  Her first published poem, A Time to Rest, commemorated the bicentennial of Harriet Tubman in The Ekphrastic Review in 2022. Her recent work will appear in the 2023 Maryland Bards Poetry Anthology. Tina was awarded Honorable Mention for flash nonfiction essay in the Bethesda Local Artist Showcase in 2023. Tina co-led the Bethesda Poetry Group sponsored by The Writer’s Center, where she has been an active member since 2019. Tina is currently writing a poetry manuscript and a novel. She lives with her family in Rockville, MD.

Stand by Sharon Denmark

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Stand

Someone put a deer stand on the clear cut’s
edge, facing a field of rutted red mud
and torn, bent saplings. In the winter distance
another purple-gray line of forest
is left standing. Cloven hooves make their way
through this new game of pick up sticks. “The hunting
of deer or bear with a gun, firearm, or other weapon
with the aid or assistance of dogs
on Sunday is prohibited,” as though
there’s enough bloodshed bound on onion skin pages
to sustain us through that day.

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Sharon Denmark is an artist and writer from Virginia. Most recently, her work has appeared in FERAL. During the day she can be found sorting through life’s leftovers.