Ends, if impossible, unimaginable
I can't trust "there there" mimetic hit-and-run mouth
Noa Micaela Fields
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- September 25, 2026
Christopher Bakken
arrowheads of swallows slicing a wind
strong enough to set their wings on fire,
but not the weather so much as the place itself,
- September 24, 2026
Isabelle Correa
of fear, how easy it eats away
at every yellow memory
- September 23, 2026
Jennifer Maier
Sometimes she imagines it will happen this way / that it has happened already,
and she stands remembering
- September 22, 2026
Marina Carreira
Beloved, your big plastic sign
once a bat signal to all sad girls
and their grandfathers in Ironbound
- September 21, 2026
Ghayath Almadhoun (translated from the Arabic by Catherine Cobham)
If we lived in a virtual world
I would have turned off the war like you turn off the television
But we were born into a bitch of a world
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