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Tongue
Shadab Z. Hashmi
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2,105 views
The tongue in the Dictionary // does all the defining / (It will never / be tried / at the Hague) / / is a translucence / milked from a…
Blind Lemon Something
Ryan Walsh
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2,336 views
Once I lived a whole summer / inside a lemon. Bright bitter skies / and the salt. You had to squint / to make sense of it. Laundry / on the line…
SIXES AND SEVENS
LM Rivera
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1,037 views
for Judith Rosebird // in memory of David Berman / // // Dear Judith, my father left before I / was born. Knowing very little / served me…
A Family of Birds
Jenny Drai
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1,997 views
“The creative adult is the child who survived.” Ursula LeGuin / / Heaven isn’t lighter fluid or an antique cup overflowing // full of sulpher…
Who died and made you
Jessica Fjeld
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1,943 views
I’m sorry that the pencil I gave you // to write out the list of how the day had wronged you / had a lead so soft it collapsed into the page / …
Personality Test
Devin Gmyrek
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1,602 views
Do you suffer from sleeplessness? / Are the stars’ bellies full of lead? / Would you be happy as a carpenter? / Are there tattoos we should…
Both Sides
Rebecca Hazelton
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2,292 views
All the dark honey from a winter garden sags in heavy combs, and the buzz / begins, back where the hand fumbles in the dark, barely / clear of…
The Ha Ha Ha
Mary Zartman
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84 views
The English know how to name it, / if the cow stays in or the cow stays out. / A special hedge to do it is called a haha. / I have a desk in my…