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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 to the body
of a cabbage white
and in the casket
attached to a face
that isn’t his face

he died shoveling snow
that melted the next day
poetry makes nothing
happen
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-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-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-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 out a box of air with a pick and a shovel

While the men above me, my father, grandfather,
And two of the dead man’s brothers who lived nearby
Encouraged me every now and then to take a break

And handed me a bottle of water from…

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