Tag: NLR
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Mona Lisa in Bronze
Where had he found rum? I took a sip. It was strong but sweet. Warm from his hands. “In Cuba we have a saying,” he said, “when you drink from my cup, you learn my secrets.” Creative Nonfiction by Dacia Price
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Times You Taught Me about Violence
The time we drank too much whiskey and you dropped / your fishing rod in the river / and you went stone silent for the rest of the night Poetry & Collage by Amanda Hadlock
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Assisted Living
I couldn’t help believing my mom was dragging me down. I felt like a bad person, thinking a thing like that, but I’d spent the last year bringing her clean underwear in psych wards and convalescent hospitals. She was still young, everyone said. And physically fine. But she wanted to die. It had become my…
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Maurice Carlos Ruffin on We Cast a Shadow
If you’re trying to fit into someone else’s box, you’re gonna end up destroying yourself Conversation between Maurice Carlos Ruffin, Ash Baker, and Zeke Perkins
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Love Poem
Two poems by Tasha Cotter Lost in a giant sea / Of astonishment, I remembered my old love of fool’s / Gold. The cool touch of mineral, the slick eyes of topaz.
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They
Two Poems by Matthew Thorburn they like to take things / money gold rings fingernails / and fathers they have / no need for you none for me