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Faye, Ashtyn

Forces 
Volume 2025 Article 12 
5-16-2025 
Dog 
Ashtyn Faye 
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F O R C E S    I    2 O 2 5
Dog
Ashtyn Faye
It takes hooking up to a polygraph 
For me to analyze my past
Rooting around for the truth of Me 
Is an autopsy with
No return receipt
The question that seems to haunt everybody:
Who am I really?
My ’03 Chevy took me down to the beach 
Where I built up a castle of make-believes 
Alone at the water with a surgical knife
I opened Me up to see what was inside 
After an agonizing dumpster dive
I only found one truth that mattered in the slightest
Turns out I want my dog from when I was a kid 
I want to take back leaving him
I once gave him half a lemonade
Straight from the cup, he gobbled it up
I gave him half my bed, half the dinners I made
And a stuffed bear I won in a claw machine 
for seventy five cents 
You know, three quarters is a big deal at 10
He died without me and I still feel guilty
It really was only thirty seconds
But the weight of intervals depends on innocence 
So that half a minute must have been
Very heavy indeed
I loved him three quarters worth and half a lemonade 
So essentially
The dissection revealed he was 
Everything
Elusive
Beth T. Ayers
The feeling washes over me, almost bringing 
a sense of panic but not quite because I can
tell myself to think, ask myself 
“What am I forgetting?” and I wait
as the response blows away in the breeze. 
Something is lost. My glasses? My keys?
Nagging questions dangle on a wire 
with answers hanging just out of reach. 
My thoughts swirl and break like waves 
upon the shore, over and over with the
repetitive question. “What am I forgetting?” 
Something is lost. “Is it my mind?”


Pyla, Lydia A.

Forces 
Volume 2025 Article 16 
5-16-2025 
Embers 
Lydia A. Pyla 
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Pyla, Lydia A. (2025) "Embers," Forces: Vol. 2025, Article 16. 
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F O R C E S    I    2 O 2 5
Embers   I   Lydia A. Pyla


Embers

King, Heather L.

Forces 
Volume 2025 Article 38 
5-16-2025 
Nevada 
Heather L. King 
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King, Heather L. (2025) "Nevada," Forces: Vol. 2025, Article 38. 
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Nevada   I 
Heather L. King
Niagara   I 
Karen Stepherson
Rainbow in the Rain
Nnamdi
Rainbow in the rain
A reminder through hard times 
You can overcome
rainbow


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