04 Aug your minutes in Augusts by Katie Naughton

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how big my god the lonely world
holds us in hollows of its
blue dying eyes my grandfather
came back downstairs to talk

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28 Jul AFTER LOCKDOWN by Trudy Stern

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We started hearing trains again—
wheels on iron.
Dreams of going far
rocking in this body.

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21 Jul An Offering by Michael McGriff

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If I were the type to look for a sign,
I might turn to the wet Coleman sleeping bag
in the bed of my truck, which is now
a motor lodge for worms and centipedes,

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14 Jul Orientation by Cindy Juyoung Ok

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The stars are less bright
than the pictures, I report
to a friend who, after nine

years in prison, is still

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07 Jul Prescience of Love Through Horror by Peter Siedlecki

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Only when the lifeless bodies of children
Float to shore
Do we see what
Love might have done for them.

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30 Jun Dead Nerves by Brigid Hannon

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I quit smoking but this poetess
needs her hit, her puff, her drag.

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23 Jun Dehiscence all over yourself by Deborah Meadows

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Each one and parts that belong are here.
A kid's thing to slam handles from table edge
to winked flight.

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16 Jun Excerpt from The Island by Oscar d’Artois

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A lot of my friends
are saying they just want to
write things for their friends

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09 Jun from Perennial Fashion Presence Falling by Fred Moten

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we're walking
an open diary.
inconsistency,
which seems
like exercise
in parting,

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02 Jun Tide by Christina Vega-Westhoff

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of less necessity than in other places
abandoned, the canon ship
the sound some soft repetition
it was high tide and then low tide
and then in between tide, when

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