by Elisabeth Blair
My miscarried children loiter nowhere, / not mentioned in any newspaper // nor honoured online. / No memorials on earth
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by Lauren Camp
One day this spring, the sky taunted the sycamore / to toss down leaves. Tested the boundary of elm / to take a barb of wind. The ground knew what a clearing
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by Kate Genevieve
Midday and I’ve yet to wash. / The lemons give me no respite, / and I’m sick of the garden fountain / bubbling incessantly.
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by Liz Howard
All my girls growing up we had hard times / the lattice-structure of our future interiors / sung like a diamond bit drill against our / temple of stripped spruce before we lost
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by Nisa Malli
The monster has taken to sinking / in every available body / of liquid. It flicks the light- / switch trying to turn / the water in the dark,
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by Rajiv Mohabir
Some are lonely before / they know. An orca / separated from his pod / calls out every night
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by Nnadi Samuel
how does mist quantify loneliness? / on no occasion has it been the cloud to end a day without company: / the way at harm’s length, a relative slips from my grip.
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by Liam Strong
trans- / versal.¹ pickled blueberries left in the card- / board.² on a dimensional level, maybe // you don’t die in this one.³
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by Gaby Bedetti and Don Boes, translated from Henri Meschonnic
after the great stories are lost in the world’s upheavals / memory begins to listen to each silence that is swallowed by the noise of now
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by Gaby Bedetti and Don Boes, translated from Henri Meschonnic
My hand does not know it is hungry / my skin does not see the night is coming
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by Nicola Danby, Pablo Strauss, and DeepL Translate (AI), translated from J.D. Kurtness
Zachary’s mother and father make no effort to shelter him from the storm of life. He is a busy child: precocious, gifted, and anxious. His parents do their best to give their only child every opportunity.
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by Steven Monte, translated from Edmond Rosand
CYRANO, pulling Christian under the balcony and taking his place: Let me do the talking now. Shh!
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