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Slow Violence
“There are costs to our living on this small, terminable planet. Daily these costs bear down on each of us, but their severity, visibility, and immediacy depend on who and where one is in the world.”
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Felicia Zamora
Mujer Mala after Gloria Anzaldúa’s “Movimientos de rebeldía y las culturas que traicionan” after the May 3, 2022 Roe V. Wade Overturn Draft Leak Let’s be clear :: my womb … Read the rest
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Tomaž Šalamun
Translated by Matthew Moore Bava’s No Fun I had three sons and five daughters. They were chained up in the woods. Buddha passed them. He ate a plum. With his… Read the rest
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Kimberly Alidio
A dense field of sound, a relaxation, a reading of space an expansive internalization of projection in a room or on a street, a texture of internal-external perceptual activity, the … Read the rest
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James Swansbrough
Last Time we had to stretch her out flat on the living room ottoman & I had to straddle her chest with my legs to pin her arms at her … Read the rest
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Luci Huhn
Explaining to My Nephews How the Lake Turns Over I don’t like that they’re headed down two highways in opposite directions, away from me, their cars packed to the gills. … Read the rest
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Katie Condon
Who Here Has Heard of Ether? The meadow was like a child, hip-height and wild. The moths had no hope for holding onto any shadow, let alone their own, which … Read the rest
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Elane Kim
Transit I want more small kindnesses: glass stained in every direction, the windows stacked tall, a looping stop. Pick a side already: the sky or the sea. More rain or … Read the rest
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Tamas Panitz
Within a Secret Cloud Where to grow my orchid that will last for a thousand years … big decisions take many tiny minds– like Dracula in his den my persecutors … Read the rest
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Jessica Guzman
Post-Storm Assessment I spray X on my front door. I set the table, plastic on plastic, secured by stone. Two days after the hurricane, I grill freezer burned flanks … Read the rest
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