Among poems about the unspoken and unseen, CPR Vol. 23, Issue 6 features poems about strength: the fear and bravery in “Ending in Both
Hear you’re in town. Lie awake, thumb something quick. Play with syntax, tone, blame but it’s not right. See your lovely face, with
of my left shoe, but don’t. Instead, I am ashamed of the way my entire torso lurches to the right with each step, my
A hyphen. I walk the plank between my two names —call me Esther. The Hebrew three-root letters mean to hide, hidden. A song, repeated.