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Issue 132

If You Were a Bluebird

Juliana Spahr

‘So the dolphins talks, talks, over thirty distinguishable sounds.’

Issue 146

In Ballard

Alissa Quart

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

Issue 134

In the Third Person

Daniel Poppick

‘Over an exit, and deeply dreaming / A guard brutally splayed’

Issue 138

Mars is a Stupid Planet

Matthew Rohrer

‘Even astronauts describe / our air as thick enough to slice / and spread on toast for breakfast.’

Issue 131

Model Reconstruction of Ancient Rome

Sandra Simonds

‘Here I am. Sephora, symbol of stolen work.’

Issue 120

Nature Study: Spots

Kay Ryan

‘Reminding us / again that live things / can be flat.’

Issue 125

Observations on the Ground

Mary Ruefle

‘Those flowers belong to the dead.’

Issue 129

Origin Myth

Mary Ruefle

‘Life continually circled in cold inaccessible serenity around unhappy Earth’

Issue 125

Pax Americana

Rowan Ricardo Phillips

‘It looks like life, or its oasis.’

Issue 100

Poem
(To A)

Harold Pinter

‘I shall miss you so much when I am dead’

Issue 129

Salad Days

Barbara Ras

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

Issue 57

Sampati

Vikram Seth

‘Why do you cry?’

Issue 118

Supernovae

Ellen Rachlin

‘Theory cannot be tangible fact / like driving on I-95 to get to a lecture / on supernovae.’

Issue 142

Swine

ko ko thett

‘I rode bareback, I rode out all the revolutions.’

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