LAURA READ Deer are the obvious stand-ins for the dead
Often what I want is impossible
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Weekly poems, selected by the editors. Featuring new work as well as poems from our rich archives.
ELIZABETH ROBINSON [Burnt easy chair on sidewalk]
Glory exists along a continuum.
DUJIE TAHAT a general sense of belonging
Even the blue sky was generous
DAN KAPLAN Whatever an Infinitesimal Dog Tells You
My head was in the middle / of something.
ARIELLE GREENBERG Sitting Around Singing Kumbaya
maybe this is a kind of stealing, too—
KATHARINE COLES Missing
The building between the buildings. A child, / Graveyards.
ALDO AMPARÁN Glossary for What You Left Unsaid: Concave
a hollow, a cavity: a hiding place
ELIZABETH METZGER Last of Kin
In a dark home an instant more by choice, / the body.
JOHN A. NIEVES If You Tilt It like So, You Can Almost See It (Caput Draconis)
This is what we lose when we think / about losing.
JULIA KOLCHINSKY DASBACHOther women don’t tell you
having learned what it means / to be apart