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February 2020

Nick Adam

Let us
talk more of how dark

the beginning of a day is.

 Maggie Smith
  • Jeffrey Yang
  • Maggie Smith
  • Angela Jackson
  • Talin Tahajian
  • John Lee Clark
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From the magazine:

Fingers on a Gay Man

A pair of adolescent boys grabs a rabbit to shear off  its ears. It doesn’t matter why, whether they’re sad or from the city. What matters is what they do with their hands: hold the blade, hang the rabbit by...
Poem

From the magazine:

Bruh

you can take my breath
but the bruh stays
lips slapping spice
of unknown bulk
face curry-blushed
from its blandness
my dad’s face caved
sour into his nose
when he heard it
the bruh cliff-hanging
on his beard
I think he tries to pray the white out of me
Town and Country...
Poem

From the magazine:

One Day I Suddenly Notice ...1

You made your students write stories about happiness and they were, you said, the worst stories of the year. Remember the pregnant woman? in a Fontainebleau café, I meant to reset it in America when I wrote the poem, she...
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