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Weekly poems, selected by the editors. Featuring new work as well as poems from our rich archives.

MICHAEL KLEBER-DIGGS
Postcard to Sean

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what creature calls with notes
above the rattle?

MARILYN HACKER
[A line of salt like a linen thread is wound to the rocks.]

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If God blessed vegetation, fish, birds and beasts, /
then humans, did s/he get around to the rocks?

TROY OSAKI
Another Poem in Which My Grandpa is Gone

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Ka Fidel’s kids ask for his ashes to be sent to the Philippines

TIANA NOBILE
Harlow’s Monkey

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The cage exists only in our mind.
Kick down the door. Matchstick.

REBECCA MORTON
Kith Nor Kin / Foster Care Preparedness Assessment

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And saying it brought me
to the ground.

JACK JUNG
Lazarus

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I died in my room and they turned it
Into a tomb

NELLY SACHS
from Flight and Metamorphosis
translated by Joshua Weiner with Linda B. Parshall

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In fear, a seed sprouts
quick on a human finger.

CALI KOPCZICK
They walked into the funeral home ready to beat a dead horse.

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It had run on, the river and the horse in it.

ANDY SIA
Rabbit God Unravels the Red Thread of Fate

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Fate? On my finger, a knotted string, still.

JANUARY GILL O’NEIL
Mississippi Season

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floating in my own still water,
waiting to be loved