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Sleeping In by Gabby Gilliam

On: January 1, 2024

Lawrence Raab said sleepis a way to stave off death. Maybe that’s what I’m doingon these long mornings when the dawn light tries to creepbeneath my blackout curtains. Last night’s tears leavingmy skin starched and stiff and photos of you the first thingsthat appear when I unlock my phone. MyContinue Reading

I Summon Our Dead Sister to Our Dying Father’s Bedside by Gabby Gilliam

On: January 1, 2024

You enter the roomthe mirror of our motherchestnut curls and beryl eyes. You perch on the edge of the bedso carefully it doesn’t shift beneathyour weight—an impossible ghosthere to hold my handwhen I need comfort most. I ask how you found us—our other sisterssettled on the opposite side of theContinue Reading

Final Throes of Winter – Gabby Gilliam

On: July 1, 2022

The Spring equinoxhas come and gone green shaftsof iris and tulip have stabbed throughlayers of earth. Yellow heads of daffodils and purpleflashes of crocus have opened to the sun.Yet here it is the first day of April and the windchill is twenty three. We’ve had scatteredflurries, and I wonder whatContinue Reading