By Sarah Carson
The first gun we knew came in a toolbox for the apocalypse: hammer, barrel, crushed can, pack of Newports…
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- By Carol Ann DuffyAt childhood’s end, the houses petered out
into playing fields, the factory, allotments
kept, like mistresses… - By Sarah CarsonThe last man here wanted
what could not be taken: My girl, he'd say,
my baby. The narrow of his eyes… - By Miguel A. VegaIf, even now, I am excited about it: every cow & horse,
every canoe on the surface of Pyramid Lake—…
- By Max FischerTaking off my clothes
feels like peeling off parts of
myself as if I’m a butterfly
with its wings sheared… - By Tamsin MooreLong, empty roads stretching as long as the gas tank is willing—
Sixty-seven dollars left from last … - By Natasha SajéDo for your neck what you do for your face.
Face your neck whatever the case. Pace yourself
for 35-55,… - By Lev Rubinstein1
Well, what on earth is there to say?
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He knows something, but won’t tell.
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Who knows, maybe you’re … - By Sholeh WolpéTall, stiff and spiny.
Try to make it to the other side
and risk savage thorns.
We who left home in our… - By Paul Laurence DunbarAs a quiet little seedling
Lay within its darksome bed,
To itself it fell a-talking,
And this is what… - By Ada LimónMy brother holds a snake by its head. The whole
length of the snake is the length
of my brother’s body… - By Ada LimónI pass the feeder and yell, Grackle party! And then an hour later I yell, Mourning dove afterparty! …
- By SapphoAs the sweet-apple reddens on the high branch,
high on the highest branch, that the apple-pickers forgot… - By R. L. SwihartThe young man says, “Alan can
do anything he wants”
“Not fly,” I say
The young man returns
a puzzled look… - By CAConradFrank’s sister grew long blue feathers
she said it was worse than cutting teeth
she spent a month … - By K. IverYou’ve never seen a lilac in Mississippi.
Backstage you wear lotion laced with
its chemical imitation… - By Karyna McGlynn& watch Kevin Bacon conjure fake tears in a Real Hallway
& I am Real Tears in a fake hallway
& “Procreation… - By Jackson HolbertMy mother was around
all the time back then, always walking
in and out of rooms carrying stacks
of … - By Forugh FarrokhzadAnd here I am,
a lonely woman
on the threshold of a cold season
at the dawn of realizing earth’s sullied… - By Jos Charlesits a secrete
the grls speeching mye hole /
inn 2 the lindens …