“Ornament” and “A Century of Surnames for Witness”
“should you cast your eyes heavenward, / your body shrugs off the symmetry // of this shift in weather, and your name lifts to a hush / of mulberry trees;”
Aubade
“the sway of her sweetness— / cassia and camel’s thorn—allow her root and labor—provident / place of first fruit—”
Cherry-Tipped Triptych
“stay beautiful, skin rabbits, / luster in the hollowness. look / how the wolves circle, wanting, sifting what’s left / by the wound-winds / whispering”
Wave
“From above, everything looks delicate. / From above, / it looks like love: the light, / the peach cheek of the flower,”
Featured Poetry
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2025-26 Rejected Poetry Prize: Winners & Finalists
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Bellbird vernacular
By Alisha Brown
“I tell it to the ducks, who have / no dialect beyond the lightness // of their bodies.”
singing → nobody supposed to be here up (↑↑) & down (↓↓) the elevator in my building
By Trace DePass
“born decrepit in my subject position quest / (←)ion, marked, punctuated. i swing from it. i wrote it / backwards, start penultimate, i’m par [← achuting,”