Vox
By Lauren Green
“I palm each of my mother’s reprimands, plant them in the lily garden / for when she is gone”
Poetry
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Miscegenation Elegy
“Have you hear a person bloom? / In that garden, Edith’s lips hymn. Skyline maintains its mar. / The poem required sound from a body.”
Scene XLIV
“I was a girl and palmed the stovetop. It would be so easy, to point to the moment of / the burn and say, yes, it was then that I lost my innocence. Not my limbs brittle on his bed.”
Heaven
By Gaia Rajan
“Once, / a taxonomist wanted to know if women were engineered to perform / labor, so he exhumed teeth, sewed them into a girl.”
INSIDE ME ARE ICEBERGS THAT MAKE IT HARD TO DANCE
“How’s your uterus? she asks, as if doctors foraging to unearth / my fertility is haha-worthy.”
Greek Sentences
“When I was a child I saw / [not the ichor on your hands] / only the ichor / in you”
Nevada Complex II
By Zack Rybak
“From where the / uncanny calls, the home which haunts me back toward my proper landscape. Desert height which void-aches, / reminder of compromise.”
God
By Timi Sanni
“You followed me through the needle eye of a dark, pine forest / and I emerged, as a doe–bright and spotless–on the other side.”
Ma’s Canh Chua Recipe: April – December 1975
By Kevin Park, Channbunmorl Sou, & Mylo Lam
“8. Smash tamarind to a fine pulp (feel free to use same blunt object used to kill snake). / As your boyfriend sits there, realize you’ll probably have his children.”