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Your Heart Was My Home Until You Handed Me an Eviction Notice 
By innocence.jaded, Stacy, MN
I removed the layers of blankets from my aching bones
to excavate the secrets that were held together by saliva
in papier-mâché envelopes, only to chew on disappointments
and lie on shards of...
Daddy's Womb 
By Carl H., Staten Island, NY
i asked my father if i could swim,
and he said that i would drown.
The Sea would imprison me – he said
if my feet had left the ground.
So i walked out to the water,
and cried out – how...
If I Were in Charge of the World 
By Jessica B., Easton, PA
(Apologies to Judith Viorst)If I were in charge of the worldMy favorite flip-flops would never wear out.There would be no books of poems with the last page missing,No hairy spiders to hide in...















