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There Was an Entire Chicken
Lisa Hiton
one from the spit where I watched them...
Alternate Endings to Shania Twain’s “That Don’t Impress Me Much” Music Video
Canese Jarboe
None of us have The Touch,
Though we have felt The Touch
*
We are all (all of us
Wearing leopard-print dusters Just once,
I was thirty hands tall (like one whole horse
Standing on
Modern Mother-land
Jenny Shi
After Qu Yuan
In my country, our insults give benefit of doubt. Nǐ yǒu bìng—
You are sick— as if there’s an
Love Poem for Sandra Oh
Anhvu Buchanan
On that spirited Emmy night,
when the camera cut to you
and you radiating in red satin
said to the world
“It’s an honor just to be Asian”
I lost my breath.
Time stopped,
blindsided by this
devotional after alejandra pizarnik
Tara Jayakar
oh longed-for, awaited beloved. she says my name
wrong and makes me come hard. i catalog
lovers like this, coins in kitchen water. six years on,
type thirsty into google
Begin Here,
Sara Luisa Kirk
with the flies, small handfuls of sunlight, sensation only one degree
removed from excess.
What to press a heart to, what color pulled up from the earth.
I’m looking for my time machine.
Stone Grandfather
Leona Sevick
(Dol Hareubang, Jeju Island, South Korea)
And there you sit, your basalt belly swollen heavy,
a gentle smile playing at your stone lips. To say I
sought you out would be a bald-faced
Nocturne with Aroace Girl
Kelly Weber
I steer the moon over my right shoulder, vertebrae
lodged above coyote ridge, winding plains road
I drive all the night’s hungers down. White light
clasping the devil’s backbone. Today snow
notes on archiving erasure
Saida Agostini
love does not begin and end the way we think it does. love is a battle; love is a war; love is a growing up
-James Baldwin
when i say
I love my family
what i mean
is i worship
the
Six of Hearts
Erika Nestor
My brain’s a sponge: once
I slept with a playing card beneath
my pillow to stain my thoughts
bright red. Let’s not dwell too long
on the times I snuck juice and vodka
and postured for the
IN WHICH THE WHITE WOMAN ON MY THESIS DEFENSE ASKS ME ABOUT WITNESS
Noor Hindi
1. And what does it mean to witness yourself, on television, dying?
a. I no longer watch the news.
b. I’ve exhausted every mirror in my home searching for my
In the Gap
Leah Umansky
so much of what I feel is strain and restraint, not
strength. I feel so much of my days are in want;
Three Poems
Tatiana Johnson-Boria
Here We Are in Infinite Joy
“People dance to say, I am alive and in my body.
I am black alive and looking back at you.”
- Elizabeth Alexander, “The Trayvon
THREE POEMS
Namrata Verghese
Chacka
This Whole Foods smells of rot.
A lady holds half a jackfruit like a baby,
Pushes her fingers deep into the damp decay.
We call jackfruit chacka back home (although who’s we?
I
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