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Amnion

Stephanie Sy-Quia

‘In the place where I grew up there were horses, thighs moving like nudity under their fur’

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Four Poems

Ian Seed

‘We were afraid to touch it – it looked cold enough / to burn us.’

Issue 152

Poem Written from Inside a Leather Pig Mask

Sam Sax

‘child who dreams of growing into / a swan only to wake in terror at a mouth / filled with feathers.’

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Summer. Gates of the Body.

Galina Rymbu

‘I want to eat your rough hand that caresses me.’

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Three Poems

Hannah Regel

‘It makes no difference / If the devil has been defeated or if it is your character’

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Two Poems

Hirata Toshiko

‘If I go to the window, / it could easily turn into bullets or rabbits.’

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Two Poems

Emmalea Russo

‘I cannot look at you as I cannot look directly at the sun without my hand / covering my eyes’

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