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  • Poem
    By Nia Francisco
    Niha hastsoí, nihidzanii
    ‘álastsii’   nihich’į’ dah deidiijaa’
    bílák’ee naazhjaa’go
    nihich’į’   dah deidiijaa…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineResilience

    By Danielle Manygoats
    Brown, I want you Brown,
    Brown roots, Brown trees.
    Family lineage ripens into clans
    And sheep graze …
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineMy Chiziiness

    By Cynthia J. Sylvester
    The way my mom restuccoed the house the color of the rosy pink mesas where she was born. The way she…
  • Poem
    By Sarah Carson
    The first gun we knew came in a toolbox for the apocalypse: hammer, barrel, crushed can, pack of Newports…
  • Poem
    By Zach Czaia
    I'm sorry it wasn't till the end of the year
    that I asked you to write about yourselves. You filled pages…
  • Poem
    By Shereen Akhtar
    In our first house-let in London, she drew on the tablecloth to create
    a calligraphic feast. Our friends…
  • Poem
    By Chaelee Dalton
    Consider the market. Consider the gross domestic product of Korea. Call it Kimchi.
    Ferment culture in…
  • Poem
    By Jack Collom
      "When one is seen gliding through the woods and close to the observer, it passes like a thought, and…
  • Poem
    By Ellen Bass
    What if you knew you'd be the last
    to touch someone?
    If you were taking tickets, for example,
    at the theater…
  • Poem
    By Jessica Rigney
    It's important she says that summer
    Flatten itself against autumn. That it keep Insisting yes yes it'…
  • Poem
    By Nick Flynn
    Saint Augustine preached humility &
    the need to simply be on the ground.
    Do you wish to rise? he asked…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineMother’s Mother

    By Khari Dawson
    mom tells me I smell like
    her Mom—
    something flowery and 

    the blackened endings
    of a joint.
    I feared her …
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineOrange Tree

    By Janiru Liyanage
    Our neighbor’s orange tree is in full bloom fat and overgrown and spilling
    sun-bright fists over our…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineWanderlust

    By Miguel A. Vega
    If, even now, I am excited about it: every cow & horse,
    every canoe on the surface of Pyramid Lake—…
    Colorful illustration of a young person with outstretched hands and a rainbow path swirling around them.
  • Poem

    poetry-magazinethe women in my family

    By Fatimah Asghar
    their names have been lost
    only the winds & only the mountains

    keep them. we’ve forgotten the names
    of …
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