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Let the Contested Moments Begin by Carol Dorf

October 31, 2023

If you meet me by the light of the moon, I promise not to bring stones.

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A Realization by Iqra Abid

October 31, 2023

Maybe I’m looking for answers in the wrong place, pleading with a universe that does not hear me instead of listening to the body that homes me.

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On These Streets by Aparna Mitra

October 30, 2023

In her smudged mind, he is still ten. It’s dark. She is calling him home, her voice waving like a flag

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Guttering Flame on a Tennessee Afternoon by Justin Aoba

October 23, 2023

I held the world in perfect stillness within the cold of my hands.

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Returning from the Dead to Go Shopping by Jared Beloff

October 17, 2023

It is raining and the clouds have no order or edge. I want like a disembodied song.

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