Sample of Voice of Eve Issue Four

Voice of EveIssue Four (February 2019)

Amy Soricelli Anahit Arustamyan Ayse Teksen Barb Reynolds Dayna Lellis Dinah Smith Jan Ball

Katharine Coggeshall Mary O’Melveny RC deWinter Savannah Roberson Sharon Tracey Stacey Rice Whitney Walters

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POEMS FROM AMY SORICELLI

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When Zoe Doesn’t Know Her Mom Is Dying

By Amy Soricelli

There is nothing new to dying. The faces of those who watch are the same, the eyes are the same, the mouth; it’s all the same. There is no surprise to the things we ask of one another - or the simple task of washing your hands, turning the sound on louder.. That still happens and all the birds still fly, you still collect your mail. Someone will bite their lip. You will ask how they can manage to, later, when it's over. You will wonder, to yourself, how the whole world just carries on their small talk, their coffee sipped, those wandering pennies in their bag. How can the regular things still happen when your soul is lost in this black space so wide, Wider than wide. When you've lost your soul. The children will wait for you at the foot of your bed and they will sing the silly tunes from yesterday’s carpet cartoon. But you will be okay with that, as you have taught them much, much more. You have taught them everything.

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POEMS FROM BARB REYNOLDS

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The Bird

By Barb Reynolds

My friend’s middle finger is stuck in a perpetual fuck you— one souvenir of the accident. The bright side: she’s always prepared if someone pisses her off.

Motoring to a fashion show, a Hummer smashed through, flattening her roof like tin foil. She lay tangled in a welter of silk and metal, crepe and dashboard.

I tell her, Most would be bitter, coming back with a sluggish leg, one unruly eye, and that eternal flip of the bird.

She tells me, All of life’s gifts are flowers in my garden— as she smiles and gives me the finger.

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