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  • Poem

    poetry-magazinebroken lyre

    By Asha Futterman
    my hands are still my hands
    like my grandfather’s hands
    are his hands and they
    are on the window
    attached…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineGrave-Digging

    By Rodney Jones
    It was July. I must have been sixteen or seventeen,
    And proud to be chosen for a grown man’s work,
    Hollowing…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineThe Call

    By Ellen June Wright
    The caregiver calls to tell me about mother,
    but I know she hasn’t slept. The security videos
    of her restless…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineHereafter

    By Kevin Young
    Once, in winter, I was blessed
          by lightning, the plane
    sudden struck—the boom

    of it, the cabin lit …
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineTime Is Blossoming

    By Mo Fei
    Translated By Wang Ping
    As if sweet olives blossomed again after the first Bailu frost, shadows
    Talk, tiger tail grass talks,…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineWe Must Be in the Harvest Again

    By Jessie Leitzel
    The end of summer
    and our jalapeño plant

    is wilting, its stem brittle
    as the heat peels

    away from us,
    though…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineAn Optimism

    By Cameron Awkward-Rich
    It is morning. Remember that.
    It is morning and the house is quiet,
    so quiet that I can, for the moment…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineAs Bee

    By Paula Bohince
    Forgive my trespass, I mistook for work a crown
    of raspberries and custard. Thank you, tartlet, thank…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineOf Cicadas

    By Luke Allan
    A wood is a collection of distances between trees. America is a collection of distances between cicadas…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineMemorial Day

    By Aaron Shurin
    And still one looks to the tree to paraphrase the sky, arbiter of wind and sun. The hills with their…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazine

    I-765

    By Hermelinda Hernandez Monjaras
    Under the header Other Names Used are a series of collaged labels from a form with boxes filled in with poetic text. Under the header Other information are two boxes. One asks for the alien registration number. The answer is filled in as antigravity. The other asks for the SSN and is filled in as antisocial. Under a collaged header with the text Your Countries Citizen Nation Place of Birth are several boxes filled in with poetic text.
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineWar. Day 294

    By Olga Livshin
    December. In Odesa,
    power stations, shelled.
    Your father’s friend
    shivers in his apartment
    crammed with …
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineCrossing

    By Ross White
    I’m not the first man to lose his father
    slowly, not the first to wonder
    when I walk in the room if the…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazinePhysical Education

    By Joshua Bennett
    For the sake of argument, let’s say
    the day my father outlawed all contact
    between backhand and face, …
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineWreck

    By Stefania Gomez
    Firemen cut the car open like a cake but when
    they reached through the windshield to pull me out
    they …
  • Poem

    poetry-magazine

    These Headphones Should Be Free

    By Kashawn Taylor
    I walk down a dim hall, and appreciate the coruscating layer of wax on the floor(how I could sleep there…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazine

    Look at our boots and spurs!

    By Angelina Sáenz
    No
    I don’t dance horses
    I am not a mariachi
    I am not a baile folklorico dancer
    I am not the half-time show…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazine

    el abanico

    By ire’ne lara silva
    we are taught the beauty of the rose
    the serenity of the soft and the still
    the austerity of silver stars…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineFour generations

    By Angelina Sáenz
    There is a framed photograph of my grandmother
    She is a young woman, sitting on a horse, vestida de china…
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