Someday I’ll Love Leila Chatti
after Frank O’Hara, et al.
Take heart—the lilacs are yours
as much as anyone’s; you need never
audition for spring. What delights
delights in you. What is luminous
beckons, and makes room. Look—
there
Features
The Weathers
1.
To us children,
the small hotel garden
was filled with effects,
but not causes.
Overhead, petals falling, or
leaves spaced perfectly—
if we bury a coconut,
it will turn into a tree.
In ALABAMA I ran across a park so green: the trees green, the sky green, the river green, the houses green, & the little dog barked a green mean thing.
In ALASKA, during the anxious hour when the cat screamed …
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This was the email from Frock Place that got her: “See You at Midnight, Clare.” This was the one that made her stop. Her own name in the subject line of an email sent to millions of people, and every …
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Two Versions of the Sea
A
It’s such an easy thing, loving the sea. Even that word, loving, is inadequate.
When I first started swim class, the teacher told us: “This is only the beginning, kids. This is …
Read MoreA woman draws her story into history.
—Hélène Cixous
1.
My great-grandmother crossed the ocean from Spain to Argentina in 1920, following her husband, who had left her and their two children behind and from whom she hadn’t heard …
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Feet are comprised of fifty-two bones, one for every week of the year, a quarter of the total number of bones in an entire human body. There are around 8,000 nerves and 125,000 sweat glands in each one. There are …
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Poetry
Night Fright Fest; Failed Wife Enterprise; Unrecorded Losses in War; & Routine of Everyday War, translated from the Arabic by Sawad Hussain
Routine of Everyday War
I page through the Death album
Face after face after face
The longer the war burns
The more faces I recognize
I empty out my chest of dreams and pack it with
Name, Image, and Likeness
My name is Regular Season Boy.
Choke Job Quarterback.
The Best Of All Time When It Doesn’t Matter.
The Man Who Coach Should’ve Benched In The National Championship Even Though Regular Season Boy Did …
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