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Christopher Hadin: Little Boxes

Bradford walked into the office with his head cocked severely to the side, holding his thin phone in place. "Yes . . . yes. Okay. I'll look the minute I sit down."

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Chris Biles: 5 Poems

I practice punching / at the kitchen table / on the couch / in my sleep / I make a fist

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Nikia Chaney: 5 Poems

going to spell h.o.m.e. like koolaid red and slippery but not / pulsing or heart in palm or the rat tat / of flesh against wall

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Jessica Purdy: 4 Poems

Remarkable this mother-body. / Its cervix having ripened twice / and now its uterus removed. / Doorway to nowhere.

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MICHAEL CHANG: 5 Poems

this 互相傷害 / this reciprocal torture / bird brain / if you have this idea, i can, too

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Emily J. Mundy: 3 Poems

The nosedive into oblivion / sweeps through me like a white sea carnival / rips through a sleepy town

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Kika Dorsey: 3 Poems

The calculus of heaven / is y approaching infinity, / and when you graph it / it rises in a line

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Yuna Kang: 3 Poems

Fresh fallen snow: A photograph of a painting is what you / show me, it glitters strangely and is obscured / by thumbs

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m. forajter: anti-greta

anti-greta stands in grim resignation. she buries her metal straw and reusable tote with her own hands, shoveling fistfuls of dirt over the metal and canvas until they have sunk back to the earth.

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Natasha Wein: 3 Poems

From my belly I spit little fires— / they are sweet & hurt & dusty. / Each slippery flame is work / to keep warm.

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Howie Good: 5 Poems

About 600 miles south of the North Pole stands the world's northernmost statue of Lenin. The face is like a mask, with a guarded but threatening expression.

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