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January 2020

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The earth
said remember

me. I am the

earth it said. Re-
member me.

 Jorie Graham
  • Jenny Zhang
  • G. C. Waldrep
  • Lillian-Yvonne Bertram
  • Oliver Baez Bendorf
  • Emily Berry
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From this Issue

Poem
All my friends are finding new beliefs.
This one converts to Catholicism and this one to trees.
In a highly literary and hitherto religiously-indifferent Jew
God whomps on like a genetic generator.
Paleo, Keto, Zone, South Beach, Bourbon.
Exercise regimens so extreme she merges with...
Poem

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When It Arrived

It was delivered to me in the snow.

The kids were all sleeping
in separate corners of the house
like unfound crystals.

I wiped the flakes off,
holding what I thought could save me.
My neighbors were afraid

I was disappearing. The branches above
trembled with hidden birds.
I...
Poem

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My baby first birthday

my mother had two vaginas
one to birth me and one to keep me
inside the first one I had two names
my given name and my other given name
my twat had a name too
it was forgotten because the climate changed
the climate changed...
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