From This Issue May 2024
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poemBy Catherine Barnett
It should be easy, I tell my son, to dispose of the possessions kept in these rooms.
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poemBy Abdulkareem Abdulkareem
All things begin from the spindle, we say—life spun from graces.
my hands let fly another letter
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poemBy David ShapiroThe trees have sex,Teach,Focus.Tohu BohuChaos in a green light.Alone again.How alone I twistat the end of thoughtwhen illness is forgotand the speakeris punched on the barkon the soft models.The old abbot looked at us and laughed.He loved electronic gadgets for...
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poemBy Lucie ThéséeHandsome, like those foam-topped tidal waves breaking high, in little crystal globes.Handsome, like the breeze that lifts a little tuft of tulle. If tulle were life.Handsome, like a frozen face, tear-tracked, when the sun hammers down.Handsome. Like fire.Handsome, like the...
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