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Poetry  / The Weekly
Elegy by Nicole Callräm
September 7, 2022
This, the only hopeful space in Midwestern / decay.
Poetry
Morning Death by Chamomile Wheatley
August 16, 2022
Death in her evening moccasins will find us the way a river finds the estuary.
Poetry
A Vision of Sunken Beauty by Sam Wilcox
September 27, 2021
The fear I feel/I have I can't translate: / the way my veins have emptied, the way / my hands have hollowed.
Poetry
sanctuary by German Dario Piedrahita Abdala
September 27, 2021
but tiles are boundaries / and some lines are not to be crossed / except maybe in prayer.
Poetry
Redacted Love Letter, May 31st by Chloé Allyn
March 22, 2021
Can you / give a voice to a mind that doesn’t think in language? / Frances, how do words sound to you?

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