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In the corridor down the street I saw myself and I was another. It’s a long, narrow corridor between the high brick walls of several buildings, which makes for a peaceful walk at night. At the hour when the space is ...

A Walk at Night by Luis Torres

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Sometimes when I write it feels like I am lifting here is a little performance about beauty     there’s one  about what the owl does to the squirrel’s throat  in the night and now I’ll ...

A Poem by Jennifer K. Sweeney

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Bullet Is a Good Name for a Horse ..................“But in the middle of the second verse, I got tired. I had a tune, and I didn't want to waste the ..................tune; it was a nice little melody, so I ...

2 Poems by Catherine Pierce

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The Old Country That was our future: the riverbanks tamed with brickwork, the train timetable listing missing stops, our town’s surviving industries of young beauties, liquor stores, ...

2 Poems by Megan Harlan

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Goes by Mark Irwin Goes the jet laying down its shadow, grazing rapid ground. Goes the clone undoing species. Goes the email’s whoosh alone to others. Goes the boy abused to field. Goes his kite ...

2 Poems by Mark Irwin

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Leaf-keep, un-sibyl; if the soul ......Has the weight of a swallow, what less ......Has the weight of a sip? ............-Joyelle McSweeney, “Tea-Strainer” I tick, lip-quiver, my head hung low and ...

Self-Portrait as Suicide by Isabelle Doyle

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Split Down the middle On the one end I have Her The American dream Her faith on the back burner On the other end We have Her The one who beams At the thought of god Who thinks of nothing ...

Blooming Moons: a Poem by Mira Hammoud

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The perfect Hijabi Hijabi, a woman who wears the hijab, Hijabi, a woman frowned upon in this world, Hijabi, a woman looked down upon by her community. She tugs at the ends of my hijab, thinking about how she ...

Blooming Moons: 2 Poems by Simra Shadood

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ornate [herᆞgrade 5] “Tomorrow is Eid, so school will be closed. It’s a Muslim holdiay. Is anyone here Muslim?” silence. “Anyone? Does anyone know about Eid?” followed by silence. “Okay, ...

Blooming Moons: 2 Poems by Aieshah Ashfer

Blooming Moons, LAR Online

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