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Poetry

Score III // Litany of Torture

51, Poetry by Sophia Terazawa

At the museum is a bronze dagger hilt presented as a fragment
looted before any god bound pleasure to books. You swam north.

We had questions. Quickening were years between war then
rumors of people packed into a cave, singing. …

At the Mention of Grief: All Queer Confess

51, Poetry by Nnadi Samuel

Lust as corporal punishment, implies we kneel on each other for pleasure.
boy: a gadget I stomach on sighting my father watch me pull the least
non-binary stunt I’m capable of.

I— double-edged pronoun, perishable filth
Pa tells me— ‘snithe …

…and, Joan Crawford left her daughter & lucency

51, Poetry by Allison Whittenberg

… and, Joan Crawford left her daughter 

nothing 
in her will, 

not even
               
a wire hanger.


lucency 

amongst a breathless, debilitating,
incapacitating, 
panic attack
i
told
myself
not …

Woman, Bird, Star & Brown sun and house top

51, Poetry by Kirsten Kaschock

Woman, Bird, Star

I closed myself within myself purposely.

The first method by which I tried to contain
miracles was to bind them to me with bandages.
I saw how the rest were living, under canary
yellow skies. But not …

Credible Threats

51, Poetry by Ziya Wang

Too low toilets, sandy plastic, first-grader size.
Someone forgot about middle school girls, skyscrapers
overnight. It’s the only place on campus without

cameras, unexpected refuge for resting bitch faces.
A girl Jackson Pollocks the second stall, spatter
of crimson, daub …

Is It Even A Diaspora Poem Without The Immigrant Parents’ Story?

51, Poetry by Rita Mookerjee

Make sure they were poor and even if not,
make sure they were poor at some point.
This especially important if you are Brahmin:
no one wants to hear about the white people
who aren’t kind to you in the …

Who is There / You Inform Our Regret / I Am in Your Field

51, Poetry by Evan Williams

Who is There Who is There

You Inform Our Regret

I Am In Your Field


Evan Williams is a Chicago-based poet interested in the collision of Surrealism, masculinity, and the natural world. Their work appears in DIAGRAM, Pleiades, 

…

Glass Delusion

51, Poetry by Heather Gluck

But the king grew increasingly erratic
swaddled in blankets, demanding that iron rods
be sewn into his clothing, so that when his glass
body bumped a wall, it would not shatter. He held
still for hours, and would not let …

Ode to the loghmeh

50, Poetry by Mehrnoosh Torbatnejad

Not quite a morsel or a nugget,
not a hint or a nibble or slice or shred,
not a scrap or a snack or a grain or a crumb,
not even a hunk or a chunk or a taste or …

Testing a Pattern / Replicas / Swim, Swam, Swum

50, Poetry by Jenny Sadre-Orafai

Testing a Pattern

I’ve watched someone who needed air
pitch a loose fist through her own window.
It was the second time I watched her die.

My mouth is a window open.

I hang heavy toile curtains—a scene
of a
…

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