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From the magazine:Birdsong of Shaker Way
By Ann-Margaret Lim
Every day is perfect, if
when you wake, you hear birds
in the garden, in the yard. Birds

up and down, ushering…
From the magazine:poem.
By Rowan Wilde Riggs
A ball of yarn is attempting to unravel my wits.
It rolls over vistas that trample our view of each …
From the magazine:poem.
By Rowan Wilde Riggs
constellations of dimwitted substrate
twinkle like formless apparitions.
i keep walking forward
so your…
From the magazine:SissyCessful
By Oak Morse
Got to gala glaze lavender my pansy hoist my symphony

little gal Fauntleroy in ultra dire

cootie yuntra…
Joyous Sea
By Magda Portal
Translated By Kathleen Weaver
I'm a sea since I could never have been a river
An unchanneled sea
of green merriments
and solitary depths…
From the magazine:nahóółtą́
By Manny Loley
ániid nahóółtą́

ániidigo
nahóółtą́ą

chxósh

chxósh

chxósh

chxósh

naanahóółtą́

k’ad
nááts…
From the magazine:rain poem
By Manny Loley
Translated By Manny Loley
rain passed through

just now
rain

chxósh

chxósh

chxósh

chxósh

rain rained

now
rainbow
stretches

water …
From the magazine:Plan Wheel
By Doug Gonzalez

Can You Hope Remember Remobilize Reorganize Revitalize Rewrite Relearn Repair Return Can You Know…
The Village Blacksmith
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Under a spreading chestnut-tree
⁠The village smithy stands;
The smith, a mighty man is he,
With large…
Museum of Stones
By Carolyn Forché
These are your stones, assembled in matchbox and tin,
collected from roadside, culvert, and viaduct,
battlefield…
The Skin's Instruction
By Jessica Rigney
It's important she says that summer
Flatten itself against autumn. That it keep Insisting yes yes it'…
From the magazine:Dispatch from the Edge of the Universe
By Lesley Younge
The first time
I tell someone I’ve thought about
ending it

is right after the first time
someone tells me…
Honour Killing
By Imtiaz Dharker
At last I’m taking off this coat,
this black coat of a country
that I swore for years was mine,
that I wore more out of habit
than design.
Born...
The Two-headed Calf
By Laura Gilpin
Tomorrow when the farm boys find this
freak of nature, they will wrap his body
in newspaper and carry …
From the magazine:
La hormona de la oscuridad
By Tilsa Otta
Un club nocturno no hace un verano
Mas creo en el perreo
Eterno recreo
En la agitación de la masa crítica…
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The Hormone of Darkness
By Tilsa Otta
Translated By Farid Matuk
A nightclub doesn’t make a summer
I believe more in perreo
Play everlasting
In the agitation of a critical…
Early Spring
By Petr Hruška
Translated By Jonathan Bolton
They had already sat down on the bed. Then the man
remembered the back door was still open. He groped…
On Leaping over the Moon
By Thomas Traherne
I saw new Worlds beneath the Water ly,
New Peeple; yea, another Sky
And Sun, which seen by Day
Might things…
A Narrative
By George Oppen
11 River of our substance
Flowing
With the rest. River of the substance
Of the earth's curve, river of …
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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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