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Love

Classic and contemporary works on affection, connection, heartbreak, and more.

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  • Poem

    poetry-magazineBrunch Shift

    By Amy Woolard
    We burn in daylight but we love the dogs until they
    Become stardust again. Like all dogs do, they love…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineThinking of It

    By Michael Robins
    Here before the sun rises, I find it difficult to make the words, to lean
    forward three years after your…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineSmall Talk

    By Michael Robins
    I dreamed you called without reason, picking up where we left the
    water months ago. Origins without …
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineDear Time,

    By Danez Smith
    now married, i’m in you different, in love
    deeper, legally, under god and in front of my mama,

    i know …
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineShiftless

    By Amy Woolard
    The wind makes a salad
    Of the countryside & we still refuse

    To learn each other’s last names. You get
    What…
  • Poem
    By bruno darío
    Translated By Kit Schluter
    I want to accompany you
    on the adventure of mastery.
    How I’d love
    our love, the antonym of art!
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineLake Chateau

    By Dorothea Lasky
    I still feel the same
    As the day that I first met you
    Though softened by all of this time

    I still think…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineFebruary 14

    By Jesse Nathan
    Going to the Russian bathhouse on Innes
    to lie naked on a shelf in the steam
    while the hatted man
    swanning…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineThe Story I Tell

    By Aaron Shurin
    The gates, the gardens, the windows, the sky, the ledge of  bricks, the fallen leaves, the porch where…
  • Poem
    By Jacques J. Rancourt
    I dressed as a stag: headpiece
    of antlers, fabric flowers

    hot-glued to a harness, my ass
    hanging out of…
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