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July/August 2021

Cover artist: Jade Pilgrom
 
  • Crystal Simone Smith
  • Hyejung Kook
  • Kwame Opoku-Duku
  • Aileen Cassinetto
  • L. Lamar Wilson
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you will be in your living room, singing melismas.
everything you utter is a prayer. your tears
water the lush earth as an offering to the lord.
from out of nowhere, a Chevy Caprice pulls up,
the windows roll down, St. Michael starts blasting.
in...
Poem
is pointless, my son says. If you write that down
I’ll kill you. I fear he fears
the attention I give it. I used to drive
till he fell asleep. Ten minutes, then silence

the river knit with ice. In tonight’s movie
a boat swerves...
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