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From the magazine:The Pelicans Can No Longer Reach You
By Golden
The pelicans can no longer reach you
Watching droughts from windows
Arctic snow shining shingles
Fire cutting…
Watching droughts from windows
Arctic snow shining shingles
Fire cutting…
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From the magazine:Grief Lessons
By Emily Skaja
No one stole your money.
No one stole your whole heart
then climbed into a stolen plane
and stole away …
No one stole your whole heart
then climbed into a stolen plane
and stole away …
Poem
From the magazine:Y.
By Luis Muñoz
Translated By Idra Novey & Garth Greenwell
Not one thing or the other.
Not equal nor different.
Given that he had spent
the night
removing the dots…
Not equal nor different.
Given that he had spent
the night
removing the dots…
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I’m always up for a smoke, says my sister.
I, too, am always up for one, I say.
so we bundle ourselves in hats, scarves, coats. ...
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From the magazine:Grief Lessons
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1942—2019Linda Gregg
Linda Gregg was born in New York and raised in Marin County, California. She earned both a BA and an MA from San Francisco State University. Gregg published several collections of poetry, including All of It Singing: New and Selected Poems (2008), a Los Angeles Times Favorite Book of 2008 and winner of the Poetry Society of America’s William Carlos Williams Award; In the Middle Distance (2006); Things and Flesh (1999), finalist for the Kingsley Tufts...
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