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A Cloudless Sky
Michael Dickman
‘A cloudless sky and I’m back / an ice-cold sky-blue rag / for my eyes’
A Description of the Architectural Impact of My Home, Age 7
Saïd Sayrafiezadeh
‘my apartment is neither over / nor under the sidewalk, / but both at once’
Ange Mlinko | First Sentence
Ange Mlinko
‘I rediscovered the efficacy of meter (or the ‘contrast between fixity and flux’) when I was stuck in a shark tunnel with my kids and was afraid I was coming down with a panic attack.’
Handkerchief
Ghassan Zaqtan
‘Nothing’s left to say between us / everything went / into the train that hid its whistle.’
Opening Invocation
Jean-Paul de Dadelsen
‘Or otherwise, leaving the shore of the intermediate sea, / has it been a while since they’ve gone ahead / into the interior of lands of the spirit?’
Passing Place
Helen Mort
‘Stall here and let the world / go past, the way / the world well might / on heather-coloured days like this,’
Postscript
John Burnside
'the trees / are slender in the way that things / are almost, though not quite / absent'
