Partition Happened to Us Too
By ena ganguly
“the whispers do not fail to reach our ears / like spider webs we walk into them / without knowing it”
Poetry
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claiming to know the tense in which love happens
“when nothing is happening, when nothing is being said, but you feel like life is finally happening, even if you are just catching their jawline and no one else knows why you almost dropped your wine.”
Bedroom at the End of the World
“For three weeks I watch geese at sunset / outside the hospital window, bellies lit orange”
After Making Love at 6AM, I Leave You in My Bed
“like a cry of ecstasy, and the solemn / countenance of the resin Mary / perched above my desk looks coy-“
what my almost lover’s husband knows
By Skye Jackson
“my body drips inky like the night / in my almost lover’s arms; / torso bends, metallic & lush,”
Hanoi Hilton
“And there is one year , thirty poems to recite, a flat metal to carve your face — I remember .”
The house was full of dead bodies, it seemed
By E. Doolittle
“He is six and likes cooking and birds / and he isn’t quite what my father expected, / but no son could have been.”
Our Lady of the Scablands
By Linea Jantz
“here the setting sun tie-dyes the clouds / in shades of Lisa Frank”
FEAR INDEX
“GABBRO, a mineral a gravestone can be made out of. / As a child, I did not like to look at their names.”