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Catherine Cafferty

Catherine Cafferty spends most of her time on NYC subways. She has an MA from San Francisco State University and an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.

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Voyage

Catherine Cafferty

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There’s the belly of a country—took me in as outlier, / bartered for my edges, called me a little ways to go. / Led me to Morocco, a…

from “Apprentice”

Catherine Cafferty

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Archetype may be just a trinket— / I see my heart in a snail / all our big and little gods / fashioned from fear / / I am only a cell /…

Coupling constellations

Catherine Cafferty

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The green leafy gaze, a loon on / the lake. / / By night mice in a dish, when the torch / is on. And squirrels want fireside. / / I cut…

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One day I laid down the bruise of you

Valerie Wetlaufer

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In those five-inch stilettos, / she thought you were fierce. / You wanted to patent-leather wound. / / But I was watching the entire…

Dear Reader–

Dora Malech

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I miss the smell of my skinned knee the summer / I pulled my whole self alone under the covers / and willed it to heal. By it I mean insert / …

Nominal Nocturne

Dora Malech

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Awkward additions / etched into benches / scrawled onto stall walls, / / bent on an always, / couplings meant / to cast a sure spell / / …

The Present

Brian Christian

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It’s good practice. It keeps the flies off, / the phoenixes down. It keeps the butter / soft, the cocksure cock hard. It’s a / strengthening…

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