Poems
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Long division at the dinner table
francine j. harris Issue No. 32Under the windowsill flowers, my father, stark likemath without calculator, sitting so still and nothingbut a blackened gum eraser and little yellow pencilat table, among the kitchen pastel, a noon windowas I divide big number… Read More »
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Song
Charif Shanahan Issue No. 32I wait each night for a self. I say the mist, I say the strangetumble of leaves, I say a motorin the distance, but I meana self and a self and a self.A small cold windcoils and uncoils in the cornerof every… Read More »
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Kirk Franklin Has to Be in Every Rap Song from Now On
Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib Issue No. 32I, too, have craned my neck / under a shower head that is not my own / & let melodies from heaven rattle the tiles in the bathroom of a stranger / like the tiles… Read More »
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Nothing Wrong with a Maple
Matt Hart Issue No. 32Go fast, white light, go faster out of sightThe Devil does know how to row my boat ashore HallelujahOrange juice, a swing set, the creaminess of milk fat But first let’s pull the paper’s weight Let the wind blow— O how… Read More »
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Ode to Lithium #419: Perfect
Shira Erlichman Issue No. 32. . . I needed to do something about my moods. It quickly came down to a choice between seeing a psychiatrist or buying a horse . . . and since I had an absolute… Read More »
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Incendiary Art: The Body
Patricia Smith Issue No. 32I’ve nightmared your writhe, glumfists punching their way out of yourown body, the blind stumble throughthe buckled vein of your throat asyour nerve endings sputtered and blew.I’ve dipped my finger into a vaporouspool of your… Read More »
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Sorrow Is My Own Yard
Danniel Schoonebeek Issue No. 31What I worship both wartime & pax in low country is sweat& pay-dirt & death to the tea tax & any day I want now I can say to my captors tomorrow,… Read More »
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Why so angry, Bluto?
Martha McCollough Issue No. 31Your low frequency growl inspires feelings of dread. You want to seize the world by its neck, tear it in half with your tombstone teeth. When you storm down the street, swigging from a bottle… Read More »
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All the Answers I Ask
David Winter Issue No. 31Raymond Chandler, Redacted the lady discovered kingsley looked harder in leather discovered a bashful cowboy a little fawn in sunglasses the lady discovered foul play and boyfriends of ice asking questions mr… Read More »
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Artemisia Mourns Her Husband
Sarah Pearl Heard Issue No. 31Tattered curtains drawn her eyes shift down to plum robes one shoulder is exposed—lips red ready to take him in. Ashes with a bit of wine, he meets her lips she takes… Read More »
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After I Die
Miriam Bird Greenberg Issue No. 31I am reborn as an animalthat breaks into dental clinicslong after sundown to suck laughing gasfrom its dark mask. I am rebornas an animal that keeps watchon the liquor store until the lightsflick off, or later. The… Read More »
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Narrated by Leonard Nimoy
Michael Lynch Issue No. 31We were in search of the garden, marzipanfruits and flesh, glazed babies posed on mallow flower,rose and Rose of Sharon. In search of the backgate, iron selvage, and strips of muslin, a chipped brass strikeplate…. Read More »