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Sarah Louise Garrido
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Even waking up to more pain, / to the limits of my empathy, / another day in a world made for people / like me, even in this sour dawn, /…
Loving the Elephant
Jeff Alessandrelli
(1)
56 views
I. // / Loving an elephant is an act of moral arithmetic, / a deep-sea dive into a plastic kiddie pool. / To love what you must hunt and…
on the last day of the rest of our lives
W.M. Butler
(0)
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the skin hunger for you on me / is a slingshot into sunshine / our faces covered to god / our love a blank rhythm / in a cloudy silence / of…
THE SOUND OF MUSIC // a commentary
Meg Hurtado
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86 views
This nightgown: // I might hate it, / but it gives me hope. // / Liesl’s dress … is it dirty because / she talked to a Nazi? Or is she merely /…
State and Church.
Aubs.
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1 The Law be Good, / Till it ain’t good no more. / The Law be God / Given, and state sanctioned. / 5 Concrete as…
THE AGE OF PLAGUES
LM Rivera
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98 views
… // // // / To leave one’s common state, one’s familiar // Destiny and a shimmering blue mask, // Forgotten and thrown into a frozen //…
Plague Prayers
Shadab Z. Hashmi
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311 views
// O coniferous center / We plead, we whisper into your ever-pardoning ear / / Here, a hymn radiating / from a diaphragm of solid gold / /…
The Graduation
Joseph Massey
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367 views
for Alastair // / What’s the world / if it isn’t broken? / So far, so to speak, // / you’ve remained / intact. Whoever / you are, wherever …