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Two Poems

Amit Chaudhuri

‘It was chick peas that kept you alive.’

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Two Poems

Kim Min Jeong

‘You think I like being called Cherry / because your cat’s named Cherry?’

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Two Poems

Paul Batchelor

‘Unable to escape, I learned to see. / The price of clarity.’

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Two Poems

Rachel Blau DuPlessis

‘A space between / the strata’d self, the wink of skin’

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Two Poems

Aaron Fagan

‘it / Was chaos in the way nature is a chaos.’

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Two Poems

Hirata Toshiko

‘If I go to the window, / it could easily turn into bullets or rabbits.’

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Two Poems

Jason Allen-Paisant

‘in iron lignum vitae / wind and leaves / keep memory’

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Two Poems

Valzhyna Mort

‘As a species I’m closest / to a screw / that loosens regularly.’

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Two Poems

Emmalea Russo

‘I cannot look at you as I cannot look directly at the sun without my hand / covering my eyes’

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Two Poems

Jenny Xie

‘Colors unstudied where human activity hasn’t yet / congealed’

Two new poems by Jenny Xie.

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Vertigo & Ghost

Fiona Benson

Two poems by Fiona Benson, whose Vertigo & Ghost is shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize 2020.

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Withstances

Rowan Evans

‘yours is no magic    is only wyrm sickness’

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