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April 2024

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(flourish!)

 Samiya Bashir
  • Melvin Dixon
  • Krista Franklin
  • Bo Hee Moon
  • Erik Tschekunow
  • Ariel Francisco
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From this Issue

Poem
By Rosalie Moffett
The sun was losing
a long gold tooth

on the linoleum
of the labor and delivery ward.

I lifted my plastic bracelet to the green eye
of the barcode gun and it sang

the first note
of money’s national anthem.

Redeem, a word with its feet
in the cement...
Poem
By Isabella DeSendi
readying it for my lover’s dinner, I remembered
my abuela slashing the rooster’s throat. I was four.
Held the wet blade in my hand and cried. For days
the carcass hung like a cross over the red front door
until it shriveled and stunk,...
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