The fruits of my recovery are fresh
with sterile seeds I spit them on
concrete steps they melt in the sun,
Azad Ashim Sharma
from the book
Boiled Owls /
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“Gaza emerges as a language of Palestine unto itself—a new beginning, the final and only utterance of the single ‘G.’”
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“To be a daughter is to know a particular kind of duty….a labor of love, a practice of attention….”
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“She was too busy scrubbing the grime from their next set of rented rooms to mourn the loss of the sunlit kitchen where her babies had been little.”
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“Ada Limón on rejection, moving forward, and what the trees have seen.”
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Full Stop
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- October 7, 2026
Arielle Hebert
Geologists say that in ten years, Florida’s coastlines will be underwater.
Oceanfront properties will drown in the wake of global warming,
- October 6, 2026
Barbara Hamby
jelly, your high-risk dirigible in the bomb-alicious
sky filled with lies, the radio highs that last
three minutes tops, the shuck and jive of yes ma'am,
- October 5, 2026
Jane Huffman
When the text
emerges with a mark missing,
I kiss it. The error ablates
- October 4, 2026
Liza Katz Duncan
We come to a clearing, thunderclouds above
an open field. Expecting rain, we watch
instead the grasses browning, streambed slowly...
- October 3, 2026
M. Soledad Caballero
At church I sit alone, not ready
for the faith, luscious around me.
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