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Holly Pester

‘I went to Ilford alone / was handed a white laminated square’

Bob

Jana Prikryl

‘he cut out small talk / not hearing it, convincingly deaf to its nothing’

Walk Laramidia

Swati Rana

‘Imagine all the prodigal / People, hoping only to / Escape every human mistake.’

Three Poems

Sophie Robinson

‘you can call my price by any name and she will come just the same’

Three poems

Mary Ruefle

‘One of the loveliest possibilities / is that the truth is made of glass’

The Reckoning

Armand Garnet Ruffo

‘the earth will heal / eventually / magnificently / when our species / is gone’

Five Skeins

Sarah V. Schweig

‘In my crumbling country every day, / people spend their lives standing in lines / to buy designer sneakers.’

Five Poems

Irene Solà

‘I wore off my tongue / like candy’ Translated from the Catalan by Oscar Holloway.

Swine

ko ko thett

‘I rode bareback, I rode out all the revolutions.’