Among poems about the unspoken and unseen, CPR Vol. 23, Issue 6 features poems about strength: the fear and bravery in “Ending in Both
Inspired by “School’s Out 1975” by Paula Neves We form the steeple with our fingers and blow Into our palms, hoping for the whistle
Her armless arms, her hairless head, lost doll feathering through duckweed, porcelain skull lighting the shallow pond like those eels, like eroding corals, so
I went to the worst of bars / hoping to get / killed. / but all I could do was to / get drunk