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We are on a slow-mo plane crash to species extinction.

WATCHING THE APOCALYPSE BY ISMAIL IBRAHIM 34THPARALLEL MAGAZINE ISSUE 68

I imagined a future where I would be a father. In the intoxicating moments between being awake and asleep, I slipped into a fantasy rife with pastoral images. In the fantasy I’m sitting on a back porch watching my daughters play. They run around the garden chasing each other, shrieking and laughing, muddying their clothes. They radiate the joy of children, that silly, light kind of happiness, so immense that it makes the scene golden.

I fight to stay optimistic

about democracy.

NJ LINE NORTHEAST CORRIDOR BY COOPER SY BLUMENTHAL 34THPARALLEL MAGAZINE ISSUE 68

My poem is personal and political, inspired by a reckoning with unadorned truth. I fight to stay optimistic about democracy. I try to have faith that the freedoms guaranteed to citizens in the US Constitution will survive the impact of so many solid hits.

I’m just a

money machine.

“D-a-a-d,” she croons, in a voice that is as dulcet and sweet as confectioner’s sugar.

PATERFAMILIAS FOR THE NEW MILLENNIUM BY STEVEN MCBREARTY34THPARALLEL MAGAZINE ISSUE 68

ÉLODIE BY JAMES LATIMER 34THPARALLEL MAGAZINE ISSUE 68
Élodie ran with cranes. She ran along the shores with breaching whales, and once, with whales, beneath the churning waves. Élodie ran on creosote, on smooth-worn stones. She splashed through sodden rushes, through salt reed grass. From there, away, you might see a head above the stems, dark hair lifting and falling. Close, you might see and hear her. Élodie’s running sang. Her shoulder blades, her breastbone, her floating heels: in motion she was music.

In times like these men turn to desperate measures.

UNA TRAGEDIA DOBLE BY JARED BERBERABE 34THPARALLEL MAGAZINE ISSUE 68
Tomorrow was another day. No doubt the streets would be filled with rage. Pablo would make coffee in the morning. Perhaps he would tend his small garden.

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ÉLODIE BY JAMES LATIMER, REST AREA BY BERNARD HAFELI, UNA TRAGEDIA DOBLE BY JARED BERBERABE, WATCHING THE APOCALYPSE IN SLOW MOTION BY ISMAIL IBRAHIM, I WISH BY JAMES MCCRAE, NJ LINE NORTHEAST CORRIDOR BY COOPER SY BLUMENTHAL, THE MANUAL FOR OBEDIENT GIRLS BY ANDREA KARIN NELSON, PATERFAMILIAS FOR THE NEW MILLENNIUM BY STEVEN MCBREARTY, SAILING OFF THE EDGE OF THE WORLD BY ANNE LEIGH PARRISH.

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