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March 2024

Cover Artist: Carlo Cadenas

Time is a body
that resembles
a sound without a scale.

 Alison C. Rollins
  • Salima Rivera
  • Anaïs Deal-Márquez
  • Lawrence Joseph
  • Tayi Tibble
  • Yuri Andrukhovych
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Starship Somatics: An Invitation

By Petra Kuppers
Author’s Note: The video is the poem: the experience of voice, light and shadow, the (virtual) touch of the water, moments of participation, immersion, etc. The transcript is not the poem per se; this text is wholly improvised. Until the moment that Charli and I hit “record,” I didn’t know what I’d be saying. This is an improvisatory…
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The Last Hummingbird of Summer

By Beth Ann Fennelly
reveals itself in retrospect. Unlike the first,
whose March arrival bade you gasp, hands clasped,
like a child actor instructed to show joy, when the last
departs for points south, there’s no telling,
and no tell. Well, so what? You know their cycle.
In August, they swarm the feeder, all swagger,
greedy tussle for sugar water. Suddenly…
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Lime Tree

By Jason Adam Sheets
hand, milk, mama,
in that order in
the shape of a Hand—

          a square in the bucket a
          corner in the square
          clang tin a shiny song—

pink cup, coffee, urn,
in that order in
the shape of a House—
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