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Poetry

愁 SORROW
by MICHAEL CHANG
What Remedies the World Will Supply
by Quintin Collins
Do You Think God Is An Optimist
by Delilah McCrea
Energy Accumulator
by Mira Rosenthal
is it viable to date yourself?
by Stella Wong

vignette the neighborhood into little stories – dematerialize the house you came from – the residue of the residents passing through the track – from absentia to lux and back to black – these lightning arteries mark the pulse points of civilization – bracket the manipulation of god – you’re only middle management in the […]

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BREATHE UNDERWATER
by MICHAEL CHANG

The dog has sneezed. I am chaste. The sword in the stone. I’m in my Empress energy. The archers are lining up. You are a pussy magnet. You use me for content. Hollow sidewalk will not support vehicles. I have nothing important to communicate. You have suffered a great disappointment. Maybe the trouble is you’re […]

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Spring Rain in Taughannock Gorge
by Nathan Erwin

To my brother & all those radicalized by extremism             It has been so dry. Now, new flowers straighten in the hiss of rain & the wild falls pick up, taller than Niagara herself. The soft shale is carried away. This is Ithaca, birth, home. When you were a child,we found your name carved […]

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Red Water
by Jeanette Beebe

Wild flamingos tip-toeing in a lake of acid grew / grow glands, adapting to / for an environment so toxic & super saturated with salt & most flamingos on Earth are born here, pink consuming.

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On Lying
by Jeanette Beebe

a loophole in surround no believing no deceiving doubt feeding over found get to the truth the right version follow the money & the spectacle a bar of soap scrubbed cheeks ballooned out like an egg

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Alternative Deindustrial Domestic
by Brandon Young

The truth: I’ve spent too much time imagining. A different earth, where? This isn’t all what we were. All I was. Nights when I forget the winters. Where I grew up. Darkness—silence stayed untouched. I forget the garbage bags of clothes my grandmother bought for us kids from garage sales. Bargain bins. Then wet summer […]

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Elegy: Field as Threshold
by Brandon Young

Early morning winds vibrate         a corn field outside. The window drapes fold me in a familiar light of this Indiana town,         as the landscape of a man & I, naked & whorled from the other, are still in bed.         A shadow growing large from impending sun. Not to touch me, as if controlling         the machinery in […]

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Thieves in the Night
by Quintin Collins

the sky settles                like an ocean                of blueberry         juice squeezed on cosmos        too much light pollution mires the stars                to see their glint                 still i know        they slosh and twinkle         and beyond infinite space                You cup Your hands ready to transfigure                                                                          liquid night into curtain         drawn wide        how you split Red Sea thief in the night                to snatch souls         of the chosen                invisible […]

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