THE VIRGINIA NORMAL

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POETRY

CARLA SARETT

Joan Didion Got It Wrong

TIMOTHY DODD

Love — Is / Not A Season

Old Margaretha’s Hand

KELLY R. SAMUELS

Blue Holes

CAROL EVERETT ADAMS

Arguing About the Moon with a Five-Year-Old

JOHN GREY

Thing

YVONNE HIGGINS LEACH

The Bone-Coves of My Mother

CARSON PYTELL

Pride

DORIS FERLEGER

Brief Treatise on the Post-Idealization Phase of Two Lovers

MATT ZAMBITO

Love Poem Because of Flower Fish

Poem I’m Worried You Won’t Finish

Poem to Also Be Published Posthumously

EMILY HYLAND

Going to the Bathroom in Central Booking

Out to Dinner with My Husband from Whom I Am Separated

The Bedroom at Your Mother’s

J. H. HERNANDEZ

For the Last Time

GANNON DANIELS

Running

SHAWNA ERVIN

Morning

WILL WALKER

Who Knew?

PATRICK PFISTER

Straw Broom in a Convent

DAVID HABIB

Rapunzel

GENE LASKOWSKI

She Doesn’t Know

GWENDOLYN JENSEN

Fire Alarm

The Urban Crocodile

LISA LOW

Suburban Encounter

On Last Visiting My Son

Canada Ferry

EVA-MARIA SHER

Midnight Computer

Come Naked

CASH MYRON TOKLAS

Emor: Chipping Away

PETER LEIGHT

Essay on Goodness in the Every Day

CATHERINE STANSFIELD

Checkout Line Prayer

Saying Goodbye During a Quarantine

FICTION

TRISH ANNESE

Aerie

SUSIE POTTER

Fever Dreams

DINAH COX

Antifreeze Dream

KATHLEEN GLASSBURN

Rituals

ERIC D. GOODMAN

Comments Left

FRANK RICHARDS

Singapore Sling

NON-FICTION

CYNDY MUSCATEL

Act Your Age

CYNTHIA YANCEY

My God, My Father, Such Confusion

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