From This Issue May 2024
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poemBy Catherine Barnett
It should be easy, I tell my son, to dispose of the possessions kept in these rooms.
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poemBy Abdulkareem Abdulkareem
All things begin from the spindle, we say—life spun from graces.
my hands let fly another letter
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poemBy Najwan DarwishAnd what did the Armenians say?An Umayyad monkspins wheat and wool above usTime is a scarecrow•That’s what the Armenians said
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poemBy Laura KasischkeI am the coward who did not pick up the phone, so as never to know.So many clocks and yardsticks dumped into an ocean.I am the ox which drew the cart full of urgent messages straight into the river, emerging none the wiser on the opposite side, never looking back at all those floating envelopes and postcards, the wet ashes of some loved one’s screams.
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poemBy Yona HarveyShe’s got a hundred & two temperature, delivery room nurses said. You’regonna live, though — long enough to know you’re goingto go as quickly as you came, gonna make your mother swear by you, going toshake your Bible with red-tipped nails before...
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