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

MARTHA RONK
Ma-Lei’l Trail, Arcata, California

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the movingness of the world is right with us

AMIT MAJMUDAR
Two Poems

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Beware the noun
that tricks itself

KEVIN LATIMER
Last Dispatch From My Dying Mouth

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i want to die until
i do. i want to touch
everything before
i’m dust.

BEATRIX GATES
The Card, the Note, the Envelope

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It was not a circle.
It was broken, raw . . .

ALLY HARRIS
Amateur Rockhound

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so find the vein
beat it with a point

MICHAEL S. HARPER
Molasses and the Three Witches

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this is the first barnfire
in history

RASAQ MALIK
Tonight In My Country

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The bird howling outside my window reminds me
of a city burning to cinders

PAUL HLAVA CEBALLOS
from Hospital Pamphlet

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what is normal
is what the body can bear, repeated
until it becomes emergency

AMY GONG LIU
Hell, a Year Later

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What I study to be less
studied and more known

TANEUM BAMBRICK
Date

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At the end of the fountain, there isn’t space
for the birds to turn their long bodies.