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Her phone speaks Russian, mine speaks English. We stand between, waiting for their words to warm our palms.
61% left on my battery. Car beeping, backing up when my phone says the animal hospital is a 2.3-day walk away. The woman makes a pinching motion to her face.
“Eat, eat,” she says to her fingers, and my phone translates English to English in case I
don’t understand.
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The role of the artist is to be the ice cream truck playing Xmas songs in July.
WILLIAM LESSARD is the author of /FACE (KERNPUNKT Press, 2026) His writing has appeared in American Poetry Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, FENCE, and the Seneca Review. He is an editor at Heavy Feather Review. More info: www.williamlessardwrites.net.