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Michelle Bailat-Jones
Amit Parmessur
Steve Barfield
Fahredin Shehu
Karyn M. Bruce
Richard Gartee
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Dejoy Robillard
Yuan Hongri
Lasz.o Slomovits
Silvia Scheibli
Stephen Sleboda
Alan Britt
Gale Acuff
Elisavietta Ritchie
Shutta Crum
Patty Dickson Pieczka
Duane Locke
Jennifer Burd
Aneek Chatterjee
Robert Nisbet
Robert Penick
Alex Ferde
Solomon Musa Haruna
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Leland Cemetery,
Canton Township, Michigan
The iron latch creaks as I lift it,
swing the gate open, then shut the world
behind me. Four-story-high branches
of maple and beech sway above.
Birds are quiet under the heaviness
of a summer afternoon.
I know the way. Footstep
by footstep, toward
the all but unreadable
markers of my great-to-the fourth
grandparents, I walk slowly
toward my life.
Sometimes in winter
having arrived home
late at night
instead of coming into
the warmth
I stand looking up
at the clear sky jingling
all that change in its pocket
into which I have slipped
my hand taking nothing
Jennifer Burd, Ypsilanti, Michigan