People wearing light purple spell out P O E T R Y letters with their bodies on a lime green background.

February 2022

Cover artist: Haein Kim/Canvas

What song would you render,
On the eve of another storm?

 Hussain Ahmed
  • Muna Abdulahi
  • Keith Donnell Jr.
  • Julia Wong Kcomt
  • Ninamarie Ochoa
  • Jeremy Michael Clark
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From this Issue

Poem
By Ada Limón
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In the dew-saturated foot-high blades
            of grass, we stand amongst a sea

of foals, mare and foal, mare and foal,
            all over the soft hillside there are twos,

small duos ringing harmoniously...
Poem
By Hedgie Choi
I have seen deer split open on the road and thought

that’s exactly what
those

soft and gentle
fuckers

deserve.

Some things happened to me in my formative years that I don’t want to tell you about
but some things happened to you too.
Poem

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ESL

By Muna Abdulahi
I watch her mouth move, and I stumble over
the makings of her sound to get close to her.

I’ve lost all my favorite tusbax and scarves
in rooms half lit & full of vowels touching teeth.

The twisting of the tongue means nothing...
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