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The Rising Phoenix Review: February 2016

February vanished like every subway train we have ever run for and missed. Think crowded platforms at rush hour, watching the taillights fade into a dark tunnel. These poems are the music of street performers echoing through the subway as we wait to return home. 

1. Ornithology By Athena Dixon
   
   
2. Eve By Kelsey Krempasky
   
   
3. Patient Lights By Elisa Vita
   
   
4. An Open Letter #1 By Saquina Karla C. Guiam
   
   
5. Broca’s area (a case study) By Heleen De Boever
   
   
6. Fearfully and Wonderfully Made By Danielle J. Alexander
   
   
7. Sweetwater By Sonny Schader
   
   
8. To An INS Officer By Nina Judith Katz
   
   
9. The Killing Field By Athena Dixon
   
   
10. To Caitlyn By Elisa Vita
    
    
11. WE TAUGHT OURSELVES TO THE UNIVERSE By Rishika Aggarwal
    
    
12. Easy By Rachana Hegde
    
    
13. Shadows of the Real By Vijaya Sundaram
    
    
14. The Four Ways My Depression Tries to Love You By Samantha Brynn
    
    
15. fit to be tied By Sonny Schader
    
    
16. & the asphalt glittered like stars By valerie d. gray
    
    
17. A Life Worth Living for the Aromantic Soul By Mary Kate McGrath
    
    
18. IN WHICH By Rachana Hegde
    
    
19. Self Portrait in Three Parts By Samantha Brynn
    
    
20. From Manic Pixie Dream Girl By Elisa Vita
    
    
21. beside still waters By Sonny Schader
    
    
22. Upon News Of Nine Deaths By Athena Dixon
    
    
23. My Mother Weeps in Two Languages By Rachana Hegde
    
    Please support the phenomenal poets we published in this issue by reading their work. Follow their blogs, buy their books. They are all worth your time. Each of them gives us courage; we love them.
    

I’m in this, among a range of wildly talented writers. Go forth and read!