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Tag Archives: family

Issue #2: Kindling, Ariel Baker-Gibbs

February 28, 2015by Jess Rizkallah Leave a comment

Kindling five days ago i was chopping kindling for my eighty­seven year old grandmother when and if your aim is true the hatchet moves through the wood and it splits […]

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Issue #2: Seabreeze, Ariel Baker-Gibbs

February 28, 2015by Jess Rizkallah Leave a comment

Seabreeze Seabreeze burned down last week. Seabreeze is the summer resort on the island where my grandmother lives. Seabreeze is where my mother worked as a teenager and I was raised […]

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Issue #2: The Island, Ariel Baker-Gibbs

February 28, 2015by Jess Rizkallah Leave a comment

The Island on the island, there is no water. whatever does not sink into the ground is held in cisterns. once we have enough we cannot save the rest. the […]

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Issue #2, Deer, Ariel Baker-Gibbs

February 27, 2015by Jess Rizkallah Leave a comment

deer it was dark. the fawn was crying. we’d never heard a deer’s voice before. it couldn’t get up. we didn’t know what to do. we went home. we tried […]

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Issue #2: Nana, Marisa Glynn

February 17, 2015by Jess Rizkallah Leave a comment

I hope my grandmother dies before I get married. I have said this many times, how it stings like a bug zapper in my chest. A flicker of guilt before […]

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Issue #2: My mother calls the seasons into our home!, Catherine Martin

February 15, 2015by Jess Rizkallah Leave a comment

My mother calls the seasons into our home! my room is flushed in spring. my mother opened my window, drew our garden up the wall and into my bed, my […]

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Issue #2: Car Picnics, Josh Elbaum

February 13, 2015by Jess Rizkallah Leave a comment

— Car Picnics On good days, Zaydee would take me out for a car picnic in his rusty red Cadillac, the wide leather seat molded to his vastness, held him […]

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Issue #2: Cutting ‘Cots, Jenna Rodrigues

February 12, 2015by Jess Rizkallah Leave a comment

 — Cutting ’Cots When I ask my relatives about cutting ‘cots, slang for picking and preparing apricots to dry in the sun of California’s Santa Clara Valley, they disagree on […]

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Issue #2: Chá Gorreana, Jenna Rodrigues

February 12, 2015by Jess Rizkallah Leave a comment

— Chá Gorreana The land is lined with tea fields, neat rows now harvested by machine. My great-grandmother picked the plant by hand when she lived here one hundred years […]

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Issue #2: Walk to Market, Jenna Rodrigues

February 12, 2015by Jess Rizkallah Leave a comment

Walk to Market The streets are as pebbled as the bottom of the ocean, basalt and calcium stones set as skinny sidewalks. You can tell the tourists from the locals […]

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