miCRo: “Flare” by Chrissy Martin
In her microessay on chronic pain, Chrissy Martin breaks down and redefines the language of suffering and resilience.
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miCRo: “boysenberry marmalade” by JJ Peña
At the beginning of “boysenberry marmalade,” the nine-year-old narrator tells us about his Tía Nora’s new “atomic guts.”
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miCRo: “Magnets” by Laurie Clements Lambeth
In her poem “Magnets” Laurie Clements Lambeth grapples with a reality familiar to people in extended quarantine: brain fog, a sensation she describes as “dulled, not knowing what was flesh or air or where—;”
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