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From the magazine:Small Talk
By Michael Robins
I dreamed you called without reason, picking up where we left the
water months ago. Origins without …
From the magazine:broken 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…
From the magazine:Heaven
By Jim Johnstone
is just a garden, really.

A plot of land where you might reach down
to touch the snow

and crystallize.

…
From the magazine:Music for Voice
By Kim Ok
Translated By Ryan Choi
i

Sonorous music for voice— I hear
a short but elegiac,

pained

melody— for long discarded

dreams of a simple…
From the magazine:성락
By Kim Ok
울려 나오는 악성의
느리고도 짧은
애닯은 곡조에
나의 사라진 옛 꿈은
그윽하게 살아
내 가슴 아파라.

설움 가득한 악성의
빠르고도 더딘

애닯은 곡조에
뒤숭숭한 그 생각은
고요하…
From the magazine:Hereafter
By Kevin Young
Once, in winter, I was blessed
by lightning, the plane
sudden struck—the boom

of it, the cabin lit …
From the magazine:Thinking of It
By Michael Robins
Here before the sun rises, I find it difficult to make the words, to lean
forward three years after your…
My Date with Glenn Gould
By Jim Cory
What god does he
pray to, swaying
like that, muttering
orange chords
at the clouds
drifting by
inside his …
Silent Partner
By Frank X. Walker
I learn today that mama,
being property,
was massa's investment. That taken all together,
the only thing…
- Anger
- Blame
From the magazine:The Ostriches
By Dorothea Lasky
In every rose there is the scent of death
I thought I was one of them
But I’m not and I’ve never been

Who…
From the magazine:A Children’s Story
By Paula Bohince
Again, an ousted child or orphan happens onto a den.
It happens then. Invitation by faun or badger to…
From the magazine:The Story I Tell
By Aaron Shurin
The gates, the gardens, the windows, the sky, the ledge of bricks, the fallen leaves, the porch where…
From the magazine:
Spiral, Surrounded by Spoiled Accord (Or, Schizoaffective, Unspecified)
By Rickey Laurentiis
What I have done is created
History, exquisite manuscripts
With angering blame.

What I have done is…
From the magazine:
On This Bit of Soiled Sadness…
By Nakahara Chūya
Translated By Jeffrey Angles
On this bit of soiled sadness
The flurries fall again today
Through this bit of soiled sadness
The wind…
From the magazine:For the Cult-Themed Party
By Jacques J. Rancourt
I dressed as a stag: headpiece
of antlers, fabric flowers

hot-glued to a harness, my ass
hanging out of…
From the magazine:
Intenciones de respirar [“Ni un día más allá la maleza"]
By bruno darío
Ni un día más allá la maleza cubrirá nuestros monumentos. La arquitectura reemplazada por otra furiosa…
From the magazine:
Intentions to breathe [“Before even one day has passed"]
By bruno darío
Translated By Kit Schluter
Before even one day has passed in the beyond, the weeds will cover our monuments. Our architecture …
From the magazine:All my life I was a bride married to amazement
By Jane Zwart
When death comes, final and novel—
the trick cul-de-sac or burst dam, a door
that opening erases or shutting…
From the magazine:The Death of the Book
By Luke Allan
1. This morning the nurse tested me for allergies. She said she’d test for “known allergies,” which …
From the magazine:汚れつちまつた悲しみに ......
By Nakahara Chūya
汚れつちまつた悲しみに
今日も小雪の降りかかる
汚れつちまつた悲しみに
今日も風さへ吹きすぎる

汚れつちまつた悲しみは
たとへば狐の革裘
汚れつちまつた悲しみは
小雪のかかつてちぢこまる

汚れつ…

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My Date with Glenn Gould

Silent Partner

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From the magazine:Small Talk

From the magazine:broken lyre

From the magazine:Heaven

From the magazine:Music for Voice

From the magazine:성락

From the magazine:Hereafter

From the magazine:Thinking of It

From the magazine:The Ostriches

From the magazine:A Children’s Story

From the magazine:The Story I Tell

From the magazine:
Spiral, Surrounded by Spoiled Accord (Or, Schizoaffective, Unspecified)

From the magazine:
On This Bit of Soiled Sadness…

From the magazine:For the Cult-Themed Party

From the magazine:
Intenciones de respirar [“Ni un día más allá la maleza"]

From the magazine:
Intentions to breathe [“Before even one day has passed"]

From the magazine:All my life I was a bride married to amazement

From the magazine:The Death of the Book

From the magazine:汚れつちまつた悲しみに ......