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My Skin, My Sanity
by Kat Duff

When I turned fifty, the only scar on my body was the thin trace of an incision on my right thumb where a doctor removed a sliver when I was nine (more...)
POETRY
Jada Ach
Ana Arredondo
Kristy Bowen
Julie R. Enszer
Patricia Wellingham-Jones
Charlie Newman
Margo Roby
CREATIVE NONFICTION
Kat Duff
Peggy Duffy
Jackson Lassiter
REVIEW/INTERVIEW
Maureen Seaton's
Venus Examines Her Breast
PHOTOGRAPHY
Jacob Knabb
Fides J. Proctor
Anna Ressman
Shawn Sargent
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Blood Tree
by Margo Roby

The aborigines call it
the mari, or blood tree,
for the gaping wounds
that bleed a scarlet resin
which with age

(like blood crusting on a cut)

blackens.



Margo Roby is a teacher of English Literature at Jakarta International School, and has lived in Indonesia for fifteen years. Her writing credits include poetry published in WORM, Pebble Lake Review, Lunarosity, Long Story Short, and Applecart Magazine.
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