for Oluwatoyin Salau, for Breonna Taylor, for Cyntoia Brown, for Tameka Drummer, for Anjanette Young, for all of us whose names I wish had first floated from m... Read More.
This country is motherless and makes me forget I am not. Two weeks or more since a call. To be in America, You must see American, close your eyes and dream Ame... Read More.
Every morning the sparrows sing
Every day there is another funeral
I am a fraud
A mouth is always open: 口
The tongue declares itself: زبان
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The Coop in August
The form asks for my job. Stay-at-home-parent, a response given by the dozen, lands wrong these months. I hold a prism over the words, bendth... Read More.
No One is Taking the Doughnut Shortage Seriously (and all that that implies)
— or the ketchup packet oneover in the adjacent deli, the dearth of good strawberri... Read More.
This disappearing, how it makes house become island, as inland pushes outland. Outlandish, you say, this push and pull—in your hurricane’s eye, everything calms... Read More.
I want my story to be ordinary. for Andrea C. Ruiz Costas and Keishla M. Rodríguez Ortiz
Nicole Arocho Hernández grew up in Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico... Read More.
In Bad Faith
Elsewhere a bell rings medieval in its calling and here
I fumble for a reliquary, any bit of cloth or bone
my religion left m... Read More.
by Michael Frazier
My students & co-workers worry if I return to America, I’ll catch COVIDor a bullet in my back. I runalong the Asano river &... Read More.
Waterloo
“The opposite of rape is understanding” Duplex, Jericho Brown
i begin as a foreign body.
it is a form of mothering to hurt yourself rather than oth... Read More.
bastard
anjing my mother calls you.how dare you defy what god has given you?
i see what she means. i see your weteyes, mouth hung open, dry panting. you
are ... Read More.
Fruit of the Earth
I have wasted these curses on minor disappointments.
Screwed up in brown paper, rattling in a tin cup,little hollow white thi... Read More.