Cormorant
By Jessica Joy Hiemstra and Paul David Esposti
“I want to land like a cormorant / when I die, be remembered / like a long black neck”
Poetry
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OK!
“The fountain and, / Cauldron of a life before, / and how important are the reminder, of what is broken, / you silly, silken, thing.”
Deus Vulgaris
“For a long time, I tried to peel off God / like a wet swimsuit”
Some women in my country are taking the fate of rivers
“Our women pray with relentless / voices for rain to join tributaries. // They hold an ignition of obituaries / on their laps.”
You, An Apocalypse Survivor, Lie in the Grass to Watch a Comet
By Gordon Smith
“How many years since you’ve been touched; eight? Nine?
I’ve Been Flipping the Pages of Your Quran
“I’ve been flipping the pages of your Quran / so it looks like you’ve been reading in bed. / I read it too, under the tree that got so hot / we used to hose it down in the summer.”
Lemandarin
I crush your skin in grasps timed like heartbeats your leak is all things bodily: color of piss, …
Nothing Novel
By Stephen Ira
“hand in hand with another trans man, that is, a picture of / me in Los Angeles, in the right light of grief, just a picture of not being there, being female- / assigned in Los Angeles, two, Lou has only just died, I’m not there,”
I hear the adhan & answered my father’s call
“seven nights into my eighteenth birthday, i swallowed the muslim faith / & my throat s-t-r-e-t-c-h-e-d into pure light.”