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Summer

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  • Poem
    By Jessica Rigney
    It's important she says that summer
    Flatten itself against autumn. That it keep Insisting yes yes it'…
  • Poem
    By Amy M. Alvarez
    Naturally, broken glass, throbbing bass, a roll of bills and a paper bag passed between the hands of…
  • Poem
    By Alvin Feinman
    This this will it always be, and why
    To ever argue for: here walking
    In its life, or sprawled, or loitering…
  • Poem
    By Rachel Tzvia Back
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    The cyclamens have a hard time
    breathing in July.

    The sun ravages them and earth
    is too dry.

    Still…
  • Poem
    By Rachel Tzvia Back
    In the capital the women are fasting.
    50 days for the 50 day war

    in a white tent on burning pavement…
  • Poem
    By Rachel Tzvia Back
    In the south we are busy now
    slaughtering each other, there's no time
    for flowers—

    Slowly summer will
    scalding…
  • Poem
    By Linda Rodriguez
    that I smile too widely,
    grinning really, and laugh
    too loud and often; that I walk
    with spring and …
  • Poem
    By Nikki Giovanni
    I always like summer
    best
    you can eat fresh corn
    from daddy's garden
    and okra
    and greens
    and cabbage…
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    Here’s an Ocean Tale

    By Kwoya Fagin Maples
    My brother still bites his nails to the quick,
    but lately he’s been allowing them to grow.
    So much hurt…
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    Summer’s Song

    By Ed Roberson
                                                                    strophe
    Faraway trains     distant planes
    the din permeating streets of traffic
    sounds,          but summer coming…
  • Poem
    By Annie Finch
    Our voices press
    from us
    and twine
    around the year's
    fermenting wine


    Yellow fall roars
    Over the ground…
  • Poem
    By Joseph Massey
    Sober for once, for what—
    for the words to budge. 

    We spent summer propped up
    by each other's stuttering…
  • Poem
    By Jose Hernandez Diaz
         A mango fell from a tree into a jaguar’s paws. It was late summer. The 
jaguar devoured the fruit and…
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    Cuauhtémoc Xochipilli

    By Jose Hernandez Diaz
        A jaguar sat in a tree. It was midsummer. The sun was shining fiercely. The jaguar was a golden color…
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    Hokkaido

    By Kit Fan
    It was summer in Hokkaido.
               The forest stole the wind
               and I swallowed my footsteps.
               Nobody came to the…
  • Poem
    By Alyse Knorr
    Between us bobs the baby, solemn in her infant wet suit.
    The pool is the only place where
                  screaming …
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