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  • ISSUE 12
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    • A WORD-12
    • InSight 1: The Nile
    • POCKET ANTHOLOGY >
      • Osip Mandelstam
    • CONVERSATIONS >
      • Myer-Darton-Meinecke
    • InSight 2: Hand Truck
    • ESSAYS >
      • from SWAMPITUDE
    • KONGO >
      • Kongo Crucifix
      • Four Moments of the Sun
    • VENTANAS >
      • Frontera II
    • FICTION >
      • Mabel, the Slave
    • MEMOIR-12
    • InSight 3: Carabou Hunter
    • ¡VIVA! >
      • Collado
    • POETRY >
      • Francesca Gargallo >
        • Before the Lamps Go Out
        • Before the Lamps Go Out2
        • Songs of the Journey
        • Songs of the Journey2
      • Stephanie Johnson
    • PORTFOLIO >
      • Leslie Wagner
    • REMARKABLE READS >
      • The Lovers
    • Colophon
    • Contributors
  • ISSUE 11
    • A Word
    • Table of Contents
    • American Pride
    • ¡VIVA! >
      • Cardenal
    • FICTION >
      • Canary Club
      • Autobiography of a Book
    • VENTANAS
    • POETRY >
      • Levent Yilmaz
      • Levent Yilmaz Turkish
    • Like it never even happened
    • MEMOIR
    • PORTFOLIO >
      • Gwendolyn KD
    • REMARKABLE READS >
      • Shahr-e Jaanaan
      • Three Books Three Trips
      • Keiichiro Hirano
    • Summer Reads
    • INCITE!
    • Contributors
  • ISSUE 10
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Of Loss

Stephanie Johnson


​The bitterness seeps through good woolen coats,
Scarves and gloves and hats;
In this chill we huddle close in the near-empty square.
The things we don’t recall in summer
Come back to us in the cold,
When we pause and look back and remember.
Conserving energy, we hunch over steaming beverages and tell stories of the past
No longer the stale smell of cafe smoke, but we remember it
We think of dates gone by, even recent ones,
With fondness.
We miss old companions and things that might have been
Promises kept and broken, misfortune and good luck,
The things we have cradling the things we lost.

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