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Volume 9, Issue 1
Inheritance
If you don’t mind a touch of hell-- / could we imagine a return to our prayers? / In their fragile heels and long black skirts, / I’m speaking with my…
Volume 9, Issue 1
Beauty Marred My Own Little Cargo Cult
As a child, mother’s aluminium head-lice comb / Was more beautiful than any princess’s diadem. / I saw it’s avatars in music box clockworks, / Turnstile’s…
Volume 9, Issue 1
The Apocryphal Anglerfish
Many people will / postulate, or comment / with frustrated smugness. / Some will weep / and mythologize. / Others will sneer / and provide scientific…
Volume 9, Issue 1
The Mountain-Drifter
The world only a rumor / Hard to leave, unwavering / In exile and posterity; / Unison as untroubled / As the breeze, touching nothing / But the moonlight…
Volume 9, Issue 1
New Morning
Early morning, / cocks stop crowing, / other birds take up the call. / A town awakes, / leaves the sex dreams in their bed somewhere, / pushes the fear…
Volume 9, Issue 1
multilingual
a polyglot / living monolingually / the language I used to speak / warm / cold / the only thing I had / the phrases and metaphors and slang / picked up…
Volume 9, Issue 1
Transplant
In the back alleys of Salamanca, / a stray dog knocked out my knees, / and I fell / into a sticky puddle, / smacked skull on / golden stone. / Suddenly /…
Volume 9, Issue 1
our end
you are old and very sick / now so you ask if I remember / this and that and I do / but it doesn’t help because / I also remember what / you say you never…
Volume 9, Issue 1
Ekphrastic Goodwill
With his right eye unblinking and askance / and his left too trusting by far, he stares / and stares at me.