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we are seen by the world / what must be seen

Nisha Ramayya

‘oh dirty feet blood-clotter / oh grease monkey clod-hopper / oh cloud-devourer spit’

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Three Poems

Chus Pato

‘you alone sit down at that table / facing the houses you tried to inhabit’
Translated from the Galician by Erín Moure.

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Two Poems

James Tate

‘I wanted to go for a walk, but I was afraid / of missing a phone call.’

Issue 146

Two Poems

Rebecca Tamás

‘that huge cobalt industrial complex eye / how can anything be that big’

Issue 146

In Ballard

Alissa Quart

‘We name stuff and hope / that’s proof. How / reporting works.’

Issue 145

Two Poems

Jana Prikryl

‘his balance / between person and / abstraction’s so stirring I want no other token for anything can happen’

Issue 145

Bob

Jana Prikryl

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

Issue 144

Comic Timing

Holly Pester

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

Issue 144

Three Poems

Sophie Robinson

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

Issue 144

Three poems

Mary Ruefle

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

Issue 144

Five Poems

Irene Solà

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

Issue 142

Five Skeins

Sarah V. Schweig

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

Issue 142

Walk Laramidia

Swati Rana

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

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The Reckoning

Armand Garnet Ruffo

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

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