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Mara Gale Fein

Mara Gale Fein most often writes of loss. She has been anthologized in Look Away Now, a collection of poems on hope and despair. Her poetry also has appeared in the Anacapa Review, California Quarterly, and Amethyst Review. Other work has appeared in Tahoma Literary Review, Wilderness House Literary Review, and Poor Yorick. She has a doctorate in English from the University of Southern California.

The cry of the cicada / Gives us no sign / That presently it will die —Matsuo Basho

Posted on July 25, 2026September 24, 2026

For him ordinary sounds were such extraordinary things. Umbrellas fluttered and he heard wings flap. Softly thrumming drums offered faint heartbeats. A shoe with no foot in it … its steps could be heard And then cancer moaned. Death — — — on a white screen. And he did it so well, so fast. For […]

Posted in Current Issue, Vol. 9 No. 2

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