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VOLUME III Will Send You This
Untitled, Ryan Baker after Brian Mornar’s Three American Letters En Route to Farm California Aug. 9, 2010 Antonia, It’s been a seven-hour bus ride but still sense you here.…
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VOLUME IIMiscarriage Synesthesia
Ghost Print, Amna Ahmed [Trigger Warning: Miscarriage Mention] On the subway platform, 53rd and Lex, an old man in a leather cap pumps tears from the scarlet ribs of a dusty accordion.…
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VOLUME IIAuction Day
Untitled, Noah Aust I turn from the display of pipeline detergent for the milking system when Bill Mayhew barks my name. He’s luggin cans of primer in both hands.…
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VOLUME IISissyboy Bullshit and All of the Above
Afternoon Tea, Ericka Veliz He’s an Architect and That’s Plenty Noble Samih loses the words to say he’s scared of heights somewhere in the backstreets and alleys of the…
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VOLUME IIThe Mermaid by the Water-pump
Untitled, Alice Zheng A little girl found herself awake at the hour of siesta. She stumbled out of her family’s shack in an abandoned corner of their Quiapo slum,…
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VOLUME IIRecord Snowfall
Ghana on the Rocks, Jenny Brum [Trigger Warning: Depictions of Domestic Violence] My son Henry is sitting across from me at a restaurant. It smells like a restaurant should. The…
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VOLUME IIMy Old Beans
Chocolate Eaters, Benjamin Rowe [Trigger Warning: Depictions of Body Horror] It’s hot. Blazing. Arizona, dead middle of summer. I am sweating. I unzip my pants and fling them aside. They…
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VOLUME IIField Poem
Winter, Beth Reynolds Just before waking I dream the blind cow has slipped and fallen down, her belly split a clean barrel, a diagram. Inside her heart shakes and…
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VOLUME IINorth Country Lessons
Bonemask, Colette Butfiloski The North Country wind blows through the yard as you lace up my gloves, then your gloves. Time to teach you how to be a man.…
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VOLUME IITranslations of Wolves
Monsters, Lauren Young Smith 1. It was a war like any other. One night the village danced to the time of the fiddle; the next there were only…
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VOLUME IIGiacomo Died When I Was One
Landscape #2, Sun Lee I. I met you once on my windowsill The summer I was six. Laughing in a dream, you Told me to be a good girl…
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VOLUME IILesson on Learned Meaning
Winter Afternoon, Evan McGrew “Respiratory!” he yelled. It was loud in the bar, and so he was yelling. “What?” “Respiratory— it is a gorgeous word!” I considered this…
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VOLUME IISleeping Gas for Fruit Flies
Closed Circuit, Marielle Saums [Trigger Warning: Animal Dissection; Death Mention] My high school biology teacher can tell the sex of a fruit fly as it floats past her head. “Male. Female.…
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VOLUME IIAlzheimer’s
Sulphur Sky, Clare Arentzen [Trigger Warning: Molestation of Minor Mention] You couldn’t live in that town and escape the steel mill. When they graduated from Hopewell High, a disappointment of its…
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VOLUME IISarajevo Rose
Sarajevo Rose, Spencer Burke The call to prayer sounds more mournful in Sarajevo than in Istanbul or Beirut. Walking through the old city—a disorder of cobbled lanes and bazaars…
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VOLUME IISans Maman
Home Sweet Home, Colin Crane [Trigger Warning: Depictions of Death; Natural Disaster] I am in Mme Guillaume’s class. She’s talking about Papa Dessalines and how he tore the white out of…
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VOLUME IIStanding in a Picasso Exhibit in 3 Parts
Happy National Morticians’ Day, Sarah Parsons Part 1: Picasso reveals. Cast: Genevieve: slender spectator with a silver scarf Picasso: invisible artist with visible visions and thoughts Chorus: art historians…