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by Timothy Prolific Edwaujonte Water no get enemy. If water kill your child, water you gon use.  – Fela Kuti // We dance clockwise on the mound   wind dampening locs   curls   and wampum dangling from limbs and leather sage   cedar   eucalyptus   smudge the children of wind and water as they dance upon the back ofContinue reading “The Apocalypse as seen Where the Waters Meet during the Summer Solstice.”

by Miriam Akervall Seal stretched andbaking like river rockswetook to the day likedrinkingthe wise fruits ofour elders,stone bramble, blackcurrant, gooseberry,little white flowersspread acrossyour tongue,sweat of theirbacksrunning down your chin.

by Trish Hopkinson You ask me to take the Christ costumeout of the closet. It’s been a year since your consciousness wentmissing—stunned out of you into the road: collision of machine & boy,no pulse in your wrists, your ghost gasping. Crash doesn’t capture it: your haloringing as it bounced from gutter to sidewalk, singing downContinue reading “Resurrection Party”

by KB I was never taught to grieve unwanted attachments.What do you do when your body becomes distant?Therapists tell me it’s only a side-effect of trauma —craving constriction & feeling every breath I take. Love is not the same thing as becoming distant.It is not a band-aid for fleshly problems. Surgeonstell me I need aContinue reading “Pre-Top Surgery Pantoum”

by Loré Yessuff what is the color of wholeness, maybe indigo maybe marigold maybe forest green,surveyed the highest brow and instead learned how to say sorry, learned that the center ofeverything isn’t too far from the rim, maybe mama’s amens ain’t conjecture after allafter all, there are holy places everywhere that crowded bus, that spiceContinue reading “Prayer for Meaning”

by Liam Sheridan i moved into a new house yesterdayi took the biggest roomi woke up this afternoon andwandered a dollar generaldrinking espresso i went to look at the paperbacksbut it was actually things thathad been seen on TV i wanted the dish soapthat washes ducks,so i got it i asked the man behind theContinue reading “23rd and jackson”

by Sarah Matthes Some days I wake upand it is terrifying. A dream of you is only “good”while its happening — then its just pissing with an open door, missingthe deeply imagined thing, wondering how will I ever knowif I really came in my sleep? You’re so enthusiastic.Your midwife roommate has used your dehydratorfor herContinue reading “LOVE POEM”

by Tom Barlow The light came in flat under the clouds theway it does sometimes at sunset in the winter,projecting the gold of the suncatcher in the windowonto the cascade of her hair, and I realized whereartists found halos for their angels. Hersilhouette was holy in a way I thought I had lostto God’s brutality,Continue reading “Halo”

by Yamini Pathak to my sons Gather rotis for stray cows, scatter rice for the ragged crowI’ve severed you from old ways, this is my sorrow It takes practice to scoop daal with your fingers, taste spice on the honeyof your hot skin before you swallow, this is my sorrow Rama scaled the ocean/Bheeshma diedContinue reading “Ghazal for the Children Born Far From Home”

by Usman Hameedi March 12, 2019The College Admissions Scandal:Wealthy parents paid consultantsto cheat their kid’s way into college And I laughed…Silly me for drafting“disadvantaged background” essaysso admissions would take pity on my povertywhen Dead Presidents write the best recommendation letters. Scandal is a funny wordto describe known facts. I’ve sat next to studentswith the lastContinue reading “College Admissions”