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If You Were a Bluebird
Juliana Spahr
‘So the dolphins talks, talks, over thirty distinguishable sounds.’
Two Poems
Jack Underwood
‘We are nearing the conclusion of this anatomy. / We are strung between the point of ending, and / the point of having started.’
From The Abstract Humanities
Sandra Simonds
‘let us / build the openwork fabric of our garden / on the fear in the body’
Sanjay Nagar Blues
Anjum Hasan
‘motorcyclists like to howl / and dogs drop bulging bags of garbage / from their mouths when they see other dogs / they want to mount’
Release the Darkness to New Lichen
Peter Gizzi
‘was it wind or a creature / am I here or is it over’
It was discovered that gut bacteria were responsible
Kathryn Maris
‘this dream that might have been pleasant for an / 8-year-old could instead emerge as a nightmare for a woman / on the brink of menopause’
The Afterlife of Trees and Their Lovers
Sumana Roy
‘It is difficult to imagine a history of trees / without man in it. Man as tree, Tree as tale.’
Vinod Kumar Shukla: Two Poems
Vinod Kumar Shukla
‘The truth is, though no one says it, / They’re all worried about their children.’
