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Issue 146

Two Poems

Jennifer L. Knox

‘The Tanners are like mushrooms: born with every molecule / they’ll ever need.’

Issue 146

Two Poems

Jenny George

‘This had happened once before, / when my life first split / into comfort and pain.’

Issue 146

Two Poems

Joe Dunthorne

‘I’ve seen it hang in muslin / like a freshly popped-out eye.’

Issue 146

Four Poems

Michael Earl Craig

‘Running through the ages from this casual rabbit.’

Issue 146

Two Poems

Caroline Knox

‘Make way, please, for the / cold blob; not blog, it’s / blob.’

Issue 146

Two Poems

Yanyi

‘It murmurs beneath the crust of the ground, or a person who serves as the ground you stand on.’

Issue 146

Two Poems

Rebecca Tamás

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

Issue 146

Two Poems

Anthony Caleshu

‘Consider the dramatic events that become ordinary people like us.’

Issue 145

Cotton Variation

Cortney Lamar Charleston

‘fibrous little trauma fruit, wan little wound-licker’

Issue 146

Two Poems

Julia Copus

‘The me that was then / follows, watching from the dark / theatre of my skull.’

Issue 146

The Politics of Feeling

Nick Laird

‘Everything already is fraying at the edges if not completely gone.’

Issue 146

In Ballard

Alissa Quart

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

Issue 145

Three Poems

Miyó Vestrini

‘It was fake that your hugs were convulsive / and your furies unpredictable.’ Translated by Cassandra Gillig and Anne Boyer.

Issue 145

Two Poems

Jana Prikryl

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

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