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Poet                         —to Ai What year? We met at the desert pawn shop, The Rare Lion, an empty strip mall where I memorize the asphalt lot in Arizona, 114 degrees. Touch your ...

Poet by Miguel Murphy

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In the sad little garden of William Paca, where the period roses have been yanked out for refusing their modern soil, the nearby holly bushes are nothing but restraint—pruned and placed between the ...

Ars Poetica by Corey Van Landingham

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Lavinia Fontana's Child of the Monkey is said lost in a canopy-bearing past, her rainforest falling unheard in my bedroom but for its laced understory leafbed layering, death’s close-call. The ...

Lavinia Fontana’s Child of the Monkey Is Said Lost by Elena Karina Byrne

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on the radio, and Christ it’s the 80s again, and after a whole night at the baths I’m a baritone in the back row of a choir ten blocks west. A professional, fresh from the conservatory. Bathhouse and parish ...

Byrd Mass for Four Voices by Patrick Donnelly

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Escalators going in a building flooded out, and they’re still playing “Glory of Love,” even though we know it’s over. Elsewhere, maybe there’s a place that retains our dignity, a library’s patient ...

Look at What We’ve Given to the Otherwise Empty Spaces by Stephen Lackaye

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Antlers   Out of velvet, winter. Out of the center, the idea splits. Wilder stars, my eyes leap my head is soft, it does not end here in the cleft between my ears: fragment, dream, map that ...

Two Poems by Jennifer K. Sweeney

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At the end of touch there's a bright winter, ............acid-green pines, the splayed wings of branches, waxy filaments ...........................canceled by fresh snow, crisp and white like bows on a butcher's ...

Chromatics of Touch by Andrea Jurjević

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Reviewed by Roy White Vanishing Acts Poems by Brian Barker Southern Illinois University Press, March 2019 $15.95, 72 pp. ISBN-13: 978-0809337279 Many things are vanishing in Brian Barker’s Vanishing ...

Review: Vanishing Acts by Brian Barker

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A True Story   I never told you the true story of the rabbits, she said as she cut our ham into small pearled squares. We chased peas around plates with our spoons, our milk waiting cold and white and ...

Two poems by Sophia Stid

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