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Two Poems by James Croal Jackson

Holiday Socks Sitting alone again, in my apartment, my reflection in the turned-off television. The red tips of my holiday socks (raptors...

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Nov 181 min read

Self-Portrait as the Last American Stagecoach Robber by Natalie Marino

An outlaw, a swindling hero, I was also just a woman. Born with all the privilege a girl could have, I looked up at the evening sky for a...

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Nov 21 min read

So where are you from by Nora Nadjarian

Why don’t you tell us so tell us so we know where you come from so we know how to talk to you so we know what you do for a living so do...

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Oct 202 min read

Escalator Love by Zoha Sh.

after Hanif Abdurraqib God, I can no longer tell the difference between divine intervention and wishful thinking. Perhaps that’s proof of...

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Oct 51 min read

Move through Your Grief As If Through Water by Sumitra Singam

Move through your grief as if through water. Clench and kick and tread through its density, feel the salt wash over you, sometimes a...

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Sep 212 min read

I Try Searching for You in Definitions by Michelle Li

Faces chalk white and bone, we sit behind the casket, the sorrow in the room enough to cradle our bodies the same way the marble sky...

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Jun 11 min read

My Boss Asks for My High of the Week by Jaden Goldfain

You’re asking to check my pulse by peeling back my skin and ribs and feeling for the beat yourself; you’re asking for two-in-the-morning...

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May 191 min read

Microsonnet of gardening terms by D.W. Baker

sun scorch winter kill heart rot bone meal bare root internode heirloom rhizome overseed scarify cold frame evergreen halophyte xeriscape...

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Apr 211 min read

continental drift by Esmé Kaplan-Kinsey

at the bus stop the cosmos disintegrates at the edges wind spits a leaf into the gutter swirls it through a galaxy of mud all these dead...

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Mar 311 min read

How Sparrows Sing by Tim Murphy

I know I can’t stay hidden forever. I have little choice, even if unseen, must find again my voice and remember, remember how sparrows...

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Mar 171 min read

The Lovers by Zainab Kuyizhi

(after Safia Elhillo's January Children - the lovers) Kaffi in the nineties My mother with a vintage square satin scarf tied to her head...

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Feb 41 min read

Emissaries by Susan Shea

After we broke up actually after you broke up with me my transcendental friend told me that our departed mothers were so upset by your...

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Jan 71 min read

Forest of Lady Slippers by Andrea Y. Rodriguez

The Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade ended the constitutionally protected right to abortion after nearly 50 years. —...

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Dec 17, 20231 min read

I’M NOT SAYING YOUR GARDEN IS FULL OF SNAKES, BUT I’M ALSO NOT SAYING IT ISN’T by Ian C. Williams

After the move, I inherited a garden— every bed overgrowing its edging stones with weed and tangling vine, withered tendrils and twisted...

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Dec 3, 20232 min read

heatwave warning by Arushi (Aera) Rege

and this is how it goes, my skin stuck to the sofa, my thighs slick with sweat, my bra soaked in the sun. so it’s summer, so it’s a dry...

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Nov 19, 20231 min read

I check my clothes for spiders by Lynn Finger

In the morning, and the little ones look like eyelashes as they float down. More eyelashes should float. They say I need to forget you...

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Nov 5, 20234 min read

Three poems by Wanda Deglane

entomology Figure 1. My cousin tells me about her new garden and the little commune of fuzzy spiders that lives there. How they follow...

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Oct 22, 20232 min read

Spectacle by Lydia Gwyn

I saw them all–their heavenly bodies glowing above the dark gap where we lived, the open-mouthed land built by thrusts and faults and...

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Oct 8, 20231 min read

Running for the Bus, with Snails by Brittany Thomas

‘Because the world is so astonishing, the snails — to take just one of the many possible examples — are so short, and it is all too great...

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Sep 24, 20231 min read

Three types of rocks by Devaki Devay

Igneous: The way I began to love you was igneous, something molten bubbling over the cracks, into the air of me. I held it in my palms...

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