Author: Joshua Gage
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For They Shall Be Called Children of God
After “Peacemaker” by Kari Russell-Pool There will be a day when the names of tyrants are no longer spoken, not even as threats for misbehaving children. There will be a day when the names of tyrants are no longer written, the very letters plucked from books as easy as stitches from a sampler. …
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Depression
Your minutes become the rooms of a labyrinth, one concentric womb en route to another mere membranes apart. Each labor awaits you. You yearn to scream like a saint robbed of words, to pray in tongues long dismissed. Your hands dam your sides, trammel your ribs, each one a wing for the sobs, sharp and…
