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Article
From the magazine:Introduction: Split This Rock 2016
Poem
From the magazine:Toy Boat
yellow plastic
black sea
eye-shaped shard
on a darkened map
no shores now
to arrive — or
depart
no wind but
this waiting which
moves you
as if the seconds
could be entered
& never left
toy boat — oarless
each wave
a green lamp
outlasted
toy boat
toy leaf dropped
from a toy tree
waiting
waiting
as if the sp-
arrows
thinning above you
are not
already pierced
by their...
black sea
eye-shaped shard
on a darkened map
no shores now
to arrive — or
depart
no wind but
this waiting which
moves you
as if the seconds
could be entered
& never left
toy boat — oarless
each wave
a green lamp
outlasted
toy boat
toy leaf dropped
from a toy tree
waiting
waiting
as if the sp-
arrows
thinning above you
are not
already pierced
by their...
Poem
From the magazine:Our Wandering
If they would only just beat or shoot me, but they wanted soul substance, to harbor that like that, so I could never move from this place. So they reach crackled hands inside and hold it open for raking ...
We...
We...
Table of Contents
split this rock
- Sarah Browning
- Ocean Vuong
- Dawn Lundy Martin
- Jennifer Bartlett
- Jan Beatty
- Reginald Dwayne Betts
- Regie Cabico
- Dominique Christina
- Martha Collins
- Linda Hogan
- Craig Santos Perez
- Aracelis Girmay
On National Poetry Month
the view from here
- Mariame Kaba
- Meredith Walker
- Omar Kholeif
- Tilleke Schwarz
comment
- Ben Lerner
- Michael Robbins
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