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Trick

Sam Willetts

‘The unexceptional mystery takes place: / around eleven, love turns to matter’

Eel Tail

Alice Oswald

‘untranslatable hissed interruptions / unspeakable wide chapped lips’

Bird of Fire

Rowan Ricardo Phillips

‘No more, no longer the sweet difference / Between real and dream I knew.’

The Mountain

Christopher DeWeese

‘When the oxygen thins, / the world gets less reciprocal.’

Rain at Three

Tishani Doshi

‘Rain at three splits the bed in half, / cracks at windows like horsemen blistering / through a century of hibernation.’

Crusoe

Salman Rushdie

‘Let me tell you, boyo, bach: I love this place, where green hills shelter me from fear.’

Midnight on Lake Michigan

Diego Báez

‘But really, your disappearance / has never been a question of whether.’

Dog Days

James Lasdun

‘Blizzard died. I’m remembering / his limitless affection.’

Never did amount to anything

Dorothea Lasky

‘Hi there, dear sister, I’m sad / But here to tell you / That you never did amount to anything’

Inheritance

Sadaf Halai

‘It made the sound of / a small balloon dropping.’

Two Poems

Ivan Landzhev

‘My chess teacher / used to tell me: / ‘Play your own game.’’

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’

Salad Days

Barbara Ras

‘nothing in those early evenings free / of care could have prepared you’