15 Dec I Am From by Namita Acharya

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I am from O-Cel-O sponges,
from Lemon Pledge and Lipton’s Green Label tea.
From quick anger, doormat women
Hot and cold, like summer rain on hot asphalt.

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08 Dec The End of My Life as an Aspiring Genius by Rachelle Toarmino

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This is the end of my life as an aspiring genius
It is also true that this was your idea
I have tried liking people around

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01 Dec Red For Life by Charles Case

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When the foxes mate, the cat
goes outside more often, sitting
at the edge of the woods, head
twitching, eyes resembling two

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24 Nov From the Trees Full of Birdsong Comes Unripe Fruit by Albert Abonado

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How I start a prayer: with the same hand I use
to lift food to my mouth, I draw a line down

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17 Nov What It Sometimes Sounds Like She Is Singing by Ariel Yelen

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When it’s a lemon,
a sprig of thyme,
when it’s oil.

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10 Nov Pastoral by Canese Jarboe

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They swarm my calves, my white-hot socks shining
With a thousand seed ticks. This is divine.
All through my hair & I want them to take.

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03 Nov The 33 by Patrick J. Long

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Where do we live? In our cars
Scuttling between office and house
Pausing to let a siren pass.

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27 Oct excerpts from ANTIKYTHERA by Thom Eichelberger-Young

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Generator I mean a crystal wrapped it
in wire there are four they are there in
the blue room all that is left of the big
dreams of our generation are letters:::

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20 Oct at twenty six i’m getting better at distilling my rage by Spencer Williams

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a fear of being judged is the two-hundred-and-seventh bone
in the body and no surgery can shave it down or cut it out.

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13 Oct Maid of the Mist by Celeste Lawson

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Life flows into her and out of her all at once
Her breath is the great mist rising above thunder

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