By Mark Waldron
I don’t want to say
things were indescribably
bad exactly
but things were
indescribably bad exactly…
things were indescribably
bad exactly
but things were
indescribably bad exactly…
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- By Tishani DoshiLike most people, I have not known
what to do with the stones handed
to me. I fold newspapers into … - By Tishani Doshikeeps waking me, even though it’s nowhere
near monsoon. At two in the morning,
and for every hour after… - By Anna JourneyIt came with the East Hollywood rental place: that novelty
polypropylene doormat screen-printed
in… - By E. Ethelbert Milleri will die this month. how
i do not know. still there
is much work to be done. i
am afraid not for myself… - By Gabrielle CalvocoressiRemember how you didn’t fall yesterday
even though you thought you would?
Life can be like that all the… - By Kathleen OssipMost days my mind wants to wander, ring a bluebell in summer, eat melon with hot pepper. My mind wears…
- By Abraham Smiththe song of the frogs
shakes the head up better is
the song of the coldest snow stepped is
the song of … - By Cynthia CruzI had a fellowship but lived poorly
On cheap beer and penny candy.
Later, a career of killing time.
But… - By Courtney KampaA man sits across from me, patterned silk padlock
at his neck and orders us whatever
people drink from… - By Gabrielle CalvocoressiNot an optimist. I lie awake at night and say the name
of everyone on the block and for three blocks … - By Momtaza MehriWoke up from a long nap and I deserved it.
Stared at the ceiling. Half-dreaming
my dead grandfather’s … - By Jason Allen-PaisantA word in the first place is a noise,
Says Le Guin, and Touam Bona, Hartman,
& Césaire agree, speaking… - By Rajiv MohabirYou took me in the sun
to your home-
town, to the tidal marsh, to the bridge
where you jump
into… - By Rajiv MohabirTranslated By Rajiv MohabirTo mourn an impossible life—
we have become objects of a King
we will never see.
All water has become black… - By Lia PurpuraNo answer but stance,
no solving but moving
sideways, and
showing.
Not finishing
ministering.
Maintenance… - By Lia PurpuraMore than enough
is what I keep
getting (and why
and why me?
that snowy line
of thought persists)
by late … - By Rajiv Mohabirएगो असंभव जीवन शोक करे खाितर—
हम लोगन कोई राजा के वस्तु बन गइली
जे राजा के हम कभी ना देखब।
सब पानी कारा… - By Marianne ChanAt the playground, my mother hid from me, I couldn’t find her, and I called her name a thousand times…
- By Nathanael JonesAt another work site in a sister borough, a neighbor hears me coughing and tells me she has been having…