John Buie   CC ​ CHERRIES Those mornings you wake alone in wrestled sheets  and tell yourself your longing, especially in the light of day,  is too sad, and because it’s real and you know it,...

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Image: “Home Is a Puzzle” by Becky Jaffe. “We Called This Under the Influence” was written by Rebecca Evans for Rattle’s Ekphrastic Challenge, May 2026, and selected as the Editor’s Choice.

There is always a man …

But she sends too many texts.

“soul flutters like sparrow / as I swell to sun / and swallow honey.”

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