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Linda Ashok

May 25, 2016

She comes from a village of India
eating gourds that birds eat for fever […]

Becca Shaw Glaser

May 22, 2016

Beautiful I said but didn’t mean it
of course I didn’t it had a huge pink flange at the top like a flopping squid
and lay against his belly […]

D.A. Lockhart

May 11, 2016

Night comes on too swiftly
in the dusk that hides behind
hundreds of wind turbines,
slow red embers igniting […]

Tanya Muzumdar

May 11, 2016

On Forester Pass we shot the shit, crowing to those who didn’t know us, avatars of who we wanted to be. Can- dies crushed to confetti in our packs, bragging about where we lived. We […]

Nkosi Nkululeko

May 11, 2016

You would’ve had to have been there to see the moon,
bloody as a hemorrhage, beneath the sky, stars scattered
like chippings of bones. So odious it had to be elegant,
hung in the dark’s net, me below the celestial bulb. […]

Wale Owoade

May 4, 2016

Falling soldiers and a shoulder
painted the wall red. My dreams

broke the midnight. A dancing body
dressed in fire, the voice of bullets […]

Jessica Morey-Collins

May 4, 2016

Rivers of me, really—tributaries of the heart
that clip into insect gullets with

such pretty reliability. The histamine bloom
at the slurp site, the flesh splotch

blood-gathering. […]

Kai Carlson-Wee

May 4, 2016

All night we listened to trains in the dark.
Heard them arranging their mile-long loads
on the field roads leading away. […]

Lisa Dordal

May 1, 2016

The history of rain
is the history of hands—

gods in low hills,
holding thunder […]

Khadjiah Johnson

April 27, 2016

I sit down on the edge of the bed
With my father on the opposite
Pretending that the television
Is not glaring […]

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