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Garage Fumes by Stacy Post This poem wants to be the grass blade of longing when you pull out the mower in Spring and see leaves from last fall still clinging to the deck. This poem wants you to lift the mower and sharpen that blade. Remove the dark underbelly of memory with unsteady fingers as you recall our last walk to the creek— tiny pliant maples sticking to our shoes, how we paused to remove them, held them up to the sky, how we stopped for the colors but not for each other. Stacy Post is a Midwestern writer in multiple forms. Her poetry chapbook, Sudden Departures, debuted in 2013. Her poems have appeared in Quail Bell Magazine, Synaesthesia Magazine, Flying Island, Midwestern Gothic, Pearl, Iodine Poetry Journal and others. A Pushcart Prize nominee for short fiction, her stories have appeared in CHEAP POP, Boston Literary Magazine, moonShine review, Fiction365, Referential Magazine and others. Her short pl...

Early Dreams of Telepathy by Stacy Post When you were eight-track I was vinyl When I was CD you were cassette strung out on a mixed tape I couldn’t live without but now we’re both MP3 you say we can share a cloud instead of direct downloads— out-formatting me once again It doesn’t matter really how we share the music the songs of our connection will outlast us, will synchronize in the ethereal our early dreams of telepathy will come true Bio: Stacy Post, a native Hoosier and librarian, resides in the heartland with her adorable family. A Pushcart Prize nominee for short fiction, her stories have appeared in Boston Literary Magazine, moonShine review, Fiction365, One Forty Fiction, Referential Magazine, Rose & Thorn Journal, WOW! Women on Writing and Every Day Fiction. Her poetry has appeared in Midwestern Gothic, Sleet Magazine, Kansas City Voices, 4 & 20 Poetry, Pearl, Iodine Poetry Journal, Referential Magazine, Every Day Poets and Skylark. ...