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By John Mulcare
We inhaled slag wool in the throat
of a Tennessee summer, installing cheap
can lights, like capping off…
of a Tennessee summer, installing cheap
can lights, like capping off…
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By Rowan Wilde Riggs
A ball of yarn is attempting to unravel my wits.
It rolls over vistas that trample our view of each …
It rolls over vistas that trample our view of each …
Poem
By Paul Tran
Mixed greens. Purple onions. Banana
Peppers. Tomatoes. Avocados. Mayonnaise. Pepper. Sourdough.
A stranger knows
Your mother’s order, has seen her
From the other side of the glass where she is always
Right and a number one
Priority. Someone asked
How she was doing, how they could help her.
Chained in whose dungeon
Were you—whose good boy…
Peppers. Tomatoes. Avocados. Mayonnaise. Pepper. Sourdough.
A stranger knows
Your mother’s order, has seen her
From the other side of the glass where she is always
Right and a number one
Priority. Someone asked
How she was doing, how they could help her.
Chained in whose dungeon
Were you—whose good boy…
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Be hourglass in the pillaged O—.
Be wells none see. Unstoppered tears,
O oud, we gather in your bowl.
O ladle of ores, scoop ink here
now seeping from the foreigner,
be sighs, O oud, and cloven aches
in... - PoemBy Linda HoganSome of us are like trees that grow with a spiral grain
as if prepared for the path of the spirit’s journey
to the world of all souls.
It is not an easy path.
A dog stands at the opening constellation
past the great helping... - PoemBy Solmaz SharifAs the dead, so I come
to the city I am of.
Am without.
To watch play out around me
as theater —
audience as the dead are audience
to the life that is not mine.
Is as not
as never.
Turning down Shiraz’s streets
it turns out to be such
a...
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