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“Nevermind the shattered glass / on the front porch.”

Tony Reflects on Form

“Gold / leaf caught the candlelight, / flicker of god.”

“Flashes / of nacre rising from silt; another name / for the buried mother.”

“Beneath / my father’s horror, I saw a kind of joy”

This August, Associate Editor Benjamin Bartu curates a selections of poems around the theme of salt.

“Don’t let / your body become a blade for the city / to pick its teeth with”

Winner of the 2022 Palette Chapbook Prize Joshua Aiken Read the chapbook for free here. You can …

“as a child I was a sea / the sea left behind”

“I watch man / pluck down from duck, / knuckles over palms, elbows / over ice.”