Featured poem: Watching My Friend Pretend Her Heart Is Not Breaking by Rosemary Wahtola Trommer.

Featured topics: outer space, grief, collecting all the critters in our homes for banishment, olfactory time travel, ant hill black holes, and a childhood home.

Poem read with permission from the author.

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