Crack the Spine - Issue 162

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Megan Merchant Consuming the Wick

A monarch floats by the open door, flimsy as memory. I swear, as a girl, there were hundreds of summery stick-wings like walking plows turning the air in our backyard, and when they scattered, the edges of sky torched and frayed.


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