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TWO POEMS by Helena Mesa
Bozza Imperfetta of Sight The tourists arrive. Dogs roam, smaller than the strays back home, then sleep, teats exposed, on warm stone roads. The tourists snap pictures; they snap pictures of each other snapping pictures; as expected, they snap pictures of cars—a 1950s Ferrari, a red taxi with Rubenesque curves. Strangers wave, pose: A…
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A STORY ENDING WITH AN OFFERING by Willie Lin
No one wanted to do it, no one wantedto look at a thing so large, helplessto die or live, not knowing what to ask for itself.To imagine an after. Even less to change it.Because they all imagined themselvesgentle—no hunter, no wolf among them—theywanted it to return to where the crease of woods began. The woman, she…
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GATE by Grayson Wolf
Before I’m born, I’m in no hurry to be born. So I arrive unhurried. A shape in the trees. Weighted, a fishing-line pinching the water’s surface. A voice like the moon, wordless …
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