Literary Cleveland

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My special daughter

like the butterfly / you thought was a leaf

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Flames spread

Thirty percent chance of the kindness of strangers.

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In the deep dark

Iron moth wings flap, creaking/

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rough waters

Expose your doubt.

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What if this never ends?

What if I’m wrong about Brenda?

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Sometimes

the place where good self talk happens

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Wrong

"I thought I was wrong once, / but I was mistaken"

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Pandemic Prompts

8 Ways Grandchildren Can Touch You, Except When They Can't by Cora Liderbach

"And though smartphones bring you their Knock-Knock jokes and blackbelt karate moves, it’s not the same as feeling small arms wrap round your thighs and wet, drippy-nosed kisses on your lips..."

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Nashukuru (I am grateful) by Oluremi Ann Oliver

"I am grateful for the wind catching the stillness of the trees and making them sway"

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A Scar and a Souvenir by Kevin Hoskinson

"Some poems avoid you / and don’t bring a warm blanket / or soft sunrise at the end / just a reckoning of sorts..."

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This is also not a poem by Amy Rosenbluth

"These words are just the dust of the day, the breakage of thought that never got air time..."

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Could Have by Marci Rich

"Do not speak to me about grief or pain..."

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