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April 2016

D.W. Fair, "Self-Portrait," 2015
 
  • Sarah Browning
  • Ocean Vuong
  • Dawn Martin
  • Jennifer Bartlett
  • Jan Beatty
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From this Issue

Poem
yellow plastic
black sea

eye-shaped shard
on a darkened map

no shores now
to arrive — or
depart
no wind but
this waiting which
moves you

as if  the seconds
could be entered
& never left

toy boat — oarless
each wave
a green lamp
outlasted

toy boat
toy leaf  dropped
from a toy tree
waiting

waiting
as if the sp-
arrows
thinning above you
are not
already pierced
by their...
Poem
If they would only just beat or shoot me, but they wanted soul substance, to harbor that like that, so I could never move from this place. So they reach crackled hands inside and hold it open for raking ...    

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