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‘unfit for human consumption’ by Isabella Borgeson
we heard the digging first / the familiar splash of rain and mud
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Svetlana Litvinchuk
3
Travel by Leonard Cohen
Lost in the fields of your hair I was never lost
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Karan Kapoor
4
My country, 'tis of thee by Bob Hicok
Whatever our problems are, we've been the closest thing the world has known to an open door.
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Karan Kapoor
4
Immortal Instant by Marko Vesović
As they well know: making us happy costs them nothing.
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Karan Kapoor
3
Poem that Listens to Griselda & Remains Stoic Until It Receives Word of Illness & Can Do Nothing but Prostrate in a Cage Made by Man by…
No, the body is no metaphor. It is a caged animal.
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Karan Kapoor
8
Pantoublock with Persephones and Milk Cartons by Seth Leeper
History is a matter of course-correcting all the mistakes of men
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Svetlana Litvinchuk
6
Never to Dream of Spiders by Audre Lorde
in the breathless precision of silence one word is made.
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Karan Kapoor
1
Origin Story: Triptych by Jenny Qi
In other words the past is a kind of infancy.
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Svetlana Litvinchuk
8
Let This Be Your Praise by Tanya Shirley
you imagine she has unpaid bills, a wayward child, you imagine you are more alike than different.
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Karan Kapoor
4
Magdalene by Anisha Jain
She knows how they call her 'whore' because of the gentle fire of her hair
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Karan Kapoor
4
Mountain Living by Sakutarō Hagiwara
sorrows do not leave the shadows of trees
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Karan Kapoor
3
Double Mastectomy by Alex Bortell
I am meant to stay in motion. Crude like a shark is perpetual.
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Karan Kapoor
2
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