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Passion

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  • Poem
    By Jacques J. Rancourt
    I dressed as a stag: headpiece
    of antlers, fabric flowers

    hot-glued to a harness, my ass
    hanging out of…
  • Poem
    By Sri Chinmoy
    There was a time when I loved
    The fantastic fabrics of the mind.
    There was a time
    When I lived my life
    Based…
  • Poem
    By Major Jackson
    The screen's fabrications remain. A film
    shot never fails, sailing through the century
    like a black V …
  • Poem
    By Li-Young Lee
    And when, in the city in which I love you,
    even my most excellent song goes unanswered,
    and I mount the…
  • Poem
    By Raúl Zurita
    Translated By William Rowe
    And then rained down from ferocious clouds
    our empty pupils heard the suspended breakers
    beat while down…
  • Poem
    By Jake Skeets
    Clouds in his throat,
    six months' worth.
    He bodies into me
    half cosmos, half coyote.
    We become night
    on Bread…
  • Poem
    By Sri Chinmoy
    Within, without the cosmos wide am I;
    In joyful sweep I loose forth and draw back all.
    A birthless, deathless…
  • Poem

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    Weeping, Nina

    By Staceyann Chin
    sends notes
    out on the water

    small droplets of sorrow
    from time to time/she embeds

    a smile

    but mostly/she cries
    wide Sargasso/seas and seas and seas of wet

    what kind of world do we/imagine a child
    abandoned by everything familiar

    she could be Iraqi
    Jamaican/Indian/Chinese

    pick a culture/any culture
    place her in...
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    Notice

    By Cheryl Boyce-Taylor
    Notice my mother
    look at her fly coat—look at her
    maple leaves turn magenta when she walks by
    there’s envy in the stars tonight
    my mother passed and they fought about who was prettier
    she or the moon
    who deserved to polish Orion’s Belt
    who should swim...
  • Audio
    By Cheryl Boyce-Taylor
  • Poem
    By Emma Hine
    I don’t realize I’m starved
    for the color until the blood

    washes up on the beach.
    I’m craving red but still

    haven’t seen the creature,
    just the quick whip and slither

    of its tail in the wake
    —and then there I am,

    facing the skin side
    of the animatronic...
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    Breed Me

    By Richie Hofmann
    My sweat soaked the sheets.

    You used to be like everyone else

    but then

    the way you hurt me (fingers, teeth):

    I grew accustomed to it

    then I craved it

    then I got bored

    and other men tried to put death into my mouth.

    Angelic Richie with bite...
  • Poem
    By Joyce Mansour
    Translated By Emilie Moorhouse
    I want to sleep with you elbow to elbow
    Hair entwined
    Genitals enlaced
    With your mouth as a pillow.
    I want to sleep with you back to back
    Without breath to keep us apart
    Without words to distract us
    Without eyes to tell lies
    Without clothes.
    I want to...
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    The Language of Dust

    By Assotto Saint
    where
    do you find
    strength
    to climb
    down the hill
    to your lover’s
    grave

    what
    do you bring
    but thirteen years
    of memories/

    how do you deal
    with his death
    when your gasps
    loom
    in the autumn air
    like circling crows
    spasms rock
    your body
    like squirrels
    shake the scarlet oak
    & purple dogwood
    branches
    while through the buzz
    of a helicopter
    the roar
    of an...
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    jeanne d’arc

    By Patti Smith
    I feel like
    I feel like shit
    I need a
    I need a drink
    and not vinegar neither
    I don’t want to die
    I feel like a freak
    don’t let me cut out
    I wasn’t cut out
    to go out virgin
    I want my cherry
    squashed man
    hammer amour
    love me
    live me
    hour to...
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