Poetry
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Contest winner
Portrait of Lady with Cephalopod
by Lisa Richter
Is the girl in the daguerreotype /
really staring down the unroofed eye /
of the black box in the honeycombed ...
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Contest winner
Untangling Gold
by Hannah Sabet
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On the stippled garden rug, mercury dyes my family together /
all the dust dancing in some unroofed ...
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Contest winner
Mercurial
by Joelle Barron
We become each other, twenty-four /
years and two thousand kilometers /
apart. Hard to care about who begets whom ...
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Contest winner
Macular Conception
by Hollie Adams
The car: a mercurial beast, frightened /
by his touch or is it he who jumps? His hands /
on the wheel, two ...
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Contest winner
safe as houses
by Andrea MacPherson
The house in a shaggy field, /
long abandoned, unroofed, stippled with moss. /
Given back to the elements, / ...
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The natural
by Chimwemwe Undi
More peace than politics, forgo the heat /
and hostile alkali for what curls itself out of me /
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dense as ...
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Be/st Frie/nds
by Brianne Battye
Cross-legged in rows on sleeping bags. When asked, her Truths don’t excite. /
They shrug, unconcerned, make ...
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Locks
by Seren Gagne
he pulls out a stick of eyeliner, /
his rat tail has bloomed /
into locks /
thick as dark feathers /
/ ...
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road race, Christmas day (for Alex Decoteau)
by Benjamin Hertwig
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a photo, 1910. /
Edmonton before /
the war. /
some version /
of the same cold /
streets. /
same ...
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Examination
by Tracy Hamon
In which position is the comb held when tapering the hair with clippers? /
a) above the wingspan of a northern ...
