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Tweens (10-13)

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  • Poem

    poetry-magazineA Children’s Story

    By Paula Bohince
    Again, an ousted child or orphan happens onto a den.
    It happens then. Invitation by faun or badger to…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineWar. Day 294

    By Olga Livshin
    December. In Odesa,
    power stations, shelled.
    Your father’s friend
    shivers in his apartment
    crammed with …
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineStreet Food

    By Daniel Halpern
    The redolence of rose and new road.
    The attar of grass, recently cut.
    The fish-whiff of anchovy.
    The spinning…
  • Poem
    By Angelina Sáenz
    No
    I don’t dance horses
    I am not a mariachi
    I am not a baile folklorico dancer
    I am not the half-time show…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineFour generations

    By Angelina Sáenz
    There is a framed photograph of my grandmother
    She is a young woman, sitting on a horse, vestida de china…
  • Poem
    By Angelina Sáenz
    I am a feminist who loves my sport
    and the machismo in charrería often gets to me

    To be clear
    I am not …
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineYou can thank us later

    By Angelina Sáenz
    Brother charro
    do you realize
    that it is because of escaramuza
    that you have an audience?

    Our performances…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineme llamo viento

    By ire’ne lara silva
    they announce us      Valentina Covarrubias montada en Viento
    my girl does not cower           does not wave or smile…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazine

    sǫ’

    By Manny Loley
    chahóółhxeel
    sǫ’ bitsádinidiin
    nahookǫs bikǫ’
    binaago deikaah
    sǫ’ binahjį’
    hane’ náás oot’ih
  • Poem

    poetry-magazinestar poem

    By Manny Loley
    Translated By Manny Loley
    night drapes
    stars emit light
    around the north star-fire
    stars journey
    in their wake
    stories extend…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazinerain poem

    By Manny Loley
    Translated By Manny Loley
     rain passed through

     just now
     rain

     chxósh

    chxósh

     chxósh

     chxósh

     rain rained

    now
     rainbow
     stretches

    water   …
  • Poem

    poetry-magazinenahóółtą́

    By Manny Loley
     ániid nahóółtą́

     ániidigo
     nahóółtą́ą

     chxósh

    chxósh

     chxósh

     chxósh

     naanahóółtą́

    k’ad
     nááts…
  • Poem
    By Luivette Resto
    Your obsession is baffling,
    with numerous stanzas dedicated to my phases
    and the personification of …
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineEverpresent Guest

    By Roy Wahlberg
    Talons close
    with an angry snarl
    an atom short of flesh:
    ancient appetites whetted
    but still outwitted…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineThe End of Childhood

    By Wayne Miller
    My daughter is building a path
    across the lake.

    Each morning she goes out
    with an armful of boards

    and hammers…
  • Poem
    By Megan Denton
    Born on a new moon, one minute after my sister
    and one pound less, my ribcage was full

    of roosting …
  • Poem
    By Megan Denton
    Which way to the monster cage? I am in my god body now—

    in my sandy foxhole
    sat backwards in a chair…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineTrot Song

    By Elise Paschen
    During the Grayhorse
    Dances in June,
    my mother side-stepped
    around the circle,
    echoing moves
    her grandmother…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineFarmers’ Market

    By Molly Fisk
    Yesterday I was so lonely
    I could barely walk,
    my friend being mobbed
    by her grandchildren
    as we made…
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