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  • Bruised Fruit

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    In Bruised Fruit, pride hangs from a tree like a plum, is plucked, and left to rot on the ground. A cow jumps over the moon and lands on the highway. A heart is made of glass. Blushing is “a wound / in my cheek.” A breath is an ocean wave. Love...


  • What Remains After the Fire

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    To every woman who has endured what should have broken her. Time, that strange and tender animal, softened the sharpest edges. And I, weary of holding only the wound, began to turn the blade into a mirror. In What Remains After the Fire, Maki...


  • Embracing Agency

    Debut Collection of Flash Fiction / Fables & Poetry
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    "Embracing Agency" invites readers to experience a moment in the life of a stranger. How will they deal with a situation they can't avoid? - Tell the truth or lie - Stay or leave - Assert themselves or be compliant A good read. These short...


  • Echos of the Canyon

    Poems and Drawings
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    For all of you in the United States working diligently to combat the destruction that is occurring, thank you for your bravery, courage to step up and out to stop the erosion of rights for all humans, no matter your race, religion, sexual...


  • Skyborne Insight, Homemade Love

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    Bringing together the rich complexity of her free verse poetry with original photography, Skyborne Insight, Homemade Love is a metaphor for poet Katharine Weinmann’s realizations about living, often brought into focus while flying. Personal...


  • Redbird

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    Redbird is a pocket journal, birthday card, sticky-note style collection of memories and experiences of a young Canadian girl remembering the riches of growing up in the boons. Redbird follows the author as she remembers her past, lives through...


  • Pour My Heart Out

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    Pour My Heart Out is the debut poetry collection from Indigenous poet Irene Bird. The stunning vulnerability and authenticity of journal writing meets the frank artfulness of Bird’s poetics as she chronicles her journey through hurt and...


  • A Pomegranate Story

    And Other Poems
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    She’s one of the Pomegranates On the tree She falls Cracks open Starts to bleed Now you wash the hands That have ripped its skin They’re remaining red You are never clean! Inspired by personal experiences and the stories of others, A Pomegranate...


  • Water

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    To live while drowning. To endure without expecting rescue. Water is a raw and luminous collection of poetry that wades deep into the currents of trauma, mental illness, and survival. With the wise voice of an old mountain woman—weathered, wise,...


  • Taunting Thoughts from the Dark Abyss

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    A job seeker cycles through endless rejection. An exchange student at a casino makes a desperate bid for escape. A woman survives a horrific assault only to encounter another monstrous injustice. These raw, roiling poems give voice to those lost...