Poem
From the magazine:Doggerel
By Tomás Q. Morín
If I have one chance
to write to you like Chance
the Rapper or Mac Miller
then I wish I had a tiny desk
with a band behind me
decked out, low tech,
like the Delfonics
or a gospel choir
singing higher, higher
as I say these lines for you,
with you, like a bus full of us
smiling when I tell you
that I love you
like an orange cat
saying…
to write to you like Chance
the Rapper or Mac Miller
then I wish I had a tiny desk
with a band behind me
decked out, low tech,
like the Delfonics
or a gospel choir
singing higher, higher
as I say these lines for you,
with you, like a bus full of us
smiling when I tell you
that I love you
like an orange cat
saying…
Poem
From the magazine:Fighting Weight
By Tomás Q. Morín
The first thing I typed was, “Stretching is serious business”
but I knew right away Lance would never…
but I knew right away Lance would never…
Poem
From the magazine:Enter Genetics
By Dalia Taha
Translated By Sara Elkamel
It took the world 197,000 years to make me.
My dna formed leisurely across centuries,
like a slow-cooked…
My dna formed leisurely across centuries,
like a slow-cooked…
Poem
From the magazine:Enter Shadows
By Dalia Taha
Translated By Sara Elkamel
Then I saw the shadow
of the massive cypress tree
split the queue of cars in two.
How can a neighborhood be as narrow
as Ramallah al-Tahta?
How can one tree’s shadow
be as vast as a border cleaving countries?
How can night and day lie together on one street
like husband and wife—
how can poems and people
share one sheet?
By this afternoon…
of the massive cypress tree
split the queue of cars in two.
How can a neighborhood be as narrow
as Ramallah al-Tahta?
How can one tree’s shadow
be as vast as a border cleaving countries?
How can night and day lie together on one street
like husband and wife—
how can poems and people
share one sheet?
By this afternoon…
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