Poetry
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Kaiteur
by Natasha Ramoutar
It exists /
on a frayed embroidered map, /
where I pulled at gold threads, /
searching for the first stitch. /
/ ...
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metro
by Tazi Rodrigues
and then she emerges /
on the corner of peel & maisonneuve, her /
city legs tired and out of kilter. /
she has ...
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Delilah, tonight
by Jase Falk
It takes so much out of you, /
not the living, but the space between. /
When it’s so cold clouds can’t form, / ...
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Blood Quantum
by Francine Cunningham
when you look at me do you see my blood quantum? /
the quantities of who i am poured down /
from generation to ...
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Contest winner
startled shut
by Jocelyn Anderson
you draw winter near /
with gnathic aptitude /
the lockjaw of late autumn /
startled shut, rivers grow covers ...
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Contest winner
Vermiculture
by Sarah Ens
When I think about dying, I think about worms, /
how their bodies churn dirt from decay. Comforting, /
perhaps, ...
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Contest winner
Letter to Hannah from Vršovice
by Alison Braid
The city blooms early again. Pairs of girls /
pose by the cluster of magnolias at the tram stop, /
lift ...
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Contest winner
Black Snake
by Ashley Hynd
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Sun circles our bodies on his way /
to kiss Moon—we eat fresh pickerel, /
brook trout, wide mouth ...
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Contest winner
March Thaw with Dead Robin
by Julian Day
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little bird, when did you leave us? /
stepped-past, kicked-aside /
walked-over /
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found ...
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Contest winner
Dwelling Pattern
by Razielle Aigen
our home will have a basement , an /
attic & two floors pleated into an /
upper & a lower . we will weave ...
