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  • Poem

    poetry-magazineChinese Hibiscus

    By Hannah Lowe
    Or call it black shoe or call it china rose
    commonly steeped for cough, bronchitis, fever.
    I see her…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazine[Waves rolling up] ii.

    By Kimiko Hahn
    If I don’t taste the complicated waves—
    if I only see the rolling,
    only hear the roiling up
    or smell those…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazine[A sickly crow] i.

    By Kimiko Hahn
    The sky is a sickly
    smell, even a crow
    cannot fly and will
    land to nestle
    and breed in
    twigs and plastics…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineArles, Whidbey

    By Reed Turchi
    Deltaic deposits deepen hues—
    not green, but that green,
    not blue, but that blue—

    In the small museum,
    a…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineElegy at Middle River

    By Courtney Kampa
    It’s an hour before noon, and Amtrak train no. 56 rips a path
    through the rain outside Baltimore,
    its …
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineBird

    By Sean Singer
    Of all the species
    of eight creeping things

    I burst my pink peppercorn
    of DNA and became a bird,
    like you…
  • Poem
    By Sean Singer
    First, I took off my jacket,
    then my shirt, pants,
    shoes, underwear, then

    my skin, then my muscles,
    then…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineIntersection

    By Lia Purpura
    While I waited
    fall came on.
    I sat in one
    bright interstice
    and nothing
    filled, it was
    already at the brim…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineOff on Holiday

    By Kira Alexis Tucker
    Wild for once, we drenched and drugged and flung
    our sunstarved bodies into brunching and clubbing and…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineRaucous Prayer

    By Patrick Rosal
    Here, my one raucous prayer
    coaxed from this poor drum,

    my double heart, under a beat-up slat
    of divine…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineThe Room of the Elder

    By Linda Hogan
    Sleep with your face visible so the young will remember you are with them.
    You want the others to see…
  • Poem
    By Nii Ayikwei Parkes
    Some mid days, blank moments in loud
    gatherings when I fall from the conversations’
    sweetening threads…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazinePreaching

    By Roger Robinson
    Under the billowing heat of the white
    tarpaulin church tent, my mother lowered
    her worshipping hands and…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineOur Founder

    By Samatar Elmi
    Who art in Cali.
    Programmer by trade.
    Thy start-up come,
    thy will become
    an FTSE 500.
    Give us this day our…
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