The Arc of a Rocket is Louder
“the lover licks the lover’s silver tooth like a seafarer / pointing to the south we are alpha centauri”
Poetry
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Before Twenty Fifty
“I unwind / a migratory bird, / an orphaned accordion,”
Opened
“We bisect midnight, listening to Oppen. / Refusing to be numerous is to be frozen.”
I think I hate gardening
By Emily Tong
“here, too caught up in their fear & old / bones & fear. All writhing knots & / fray.”
A SYSTEM OF EQUATIONS WITH ■ AS PROXY
“■² opens me up to dine w/ wolves, ■³ is a phlebotomist ■⁴ a carnivorous flower / any further ■’s are ≥ gods”
by the pond
By Thomas Guo
“our names pierced through the pond’s surface tension / now fortified by the backs of algae.”
The Angel Runs for Office
“the angel spends / his afternoons, ears pressed to the dirt, cataloging their theologies.”
Ribcage and Ribbon
“But isn’t it beautiful how I corral / the rifts with / metaphors? How I language / worry with wreaths”
Cloud Translation
“And where that cloud ends and other clouds begin / is open to discussion, and that conversation / is ongoing and unending”