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September 2022

On Monuments; Cover Artist: Weshoyot Alvitre

Sometimes the stories wait for you
to begin

 Kenzie Allen
  • Kenzie Allen
  • A. Van Jordan
  • Walter Ancarrow
  • Martín Tonalmeyotl
  • Daniela Ema Aguinsky
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Nestora Salgado

By Martín Tonalmeyotl
Nació en medio de las altas montañas
y le fue asignado un jaguar como guardián.
Con sus manos cultivó un valle de flores para las
mariposas
y con las alas de lepidópteros se vistió de colores.

Antes de dar un paso
bebió de las raíces del linaloe,
árbol de suave perfume que inundó sus palabras
de una dulzura única hasta convertirlas…
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Treaties and Monuments: The Whim of Ephemeral Contracts, or A War Department Map Looks like the Fingerprint of All My Relations

By Kierstin Bridger
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A (This) fingerprint (place) is an impression left by the friction ridges of a human finger (battle). The recovery of partial fingerprints (places) from a crime scene is an important method of forensic science (reclaiming home). Moisture (Extraction practices, i.e. natural gas, minerals) and grease (oil) on a finger (landscape…
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Non-cento from the Bureau of the Library of Alexandria

By Lucas Jorgensen
Brigit Pegeen Kelly said it burned. Hera Lindsay Bird said it burned in alphabetical order. There’s nothing left about it to say. To say, “there’s nothing left about it to say” is awfully similar to what Alberto Ríos said about the Sonoran Desert and its fires—mainly, actually, that there was only one thing left to say. Then, he…
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