On the day my father told us he was selling the Nest, I decided to clone him. I spent twenty minutes waiting for a customer service representative, jangling my foot to an instrumental version of Bruce Springsteen’s “My Hometown.” I …
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Before the amputation, the doctors warned me. My memory might recall my absent limb after the surgery, and I might experience these recollections as physical sensations. I pressed for more specifics and finer explanations, but the doctors hedged, as if …
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Your Dream of My Life, You Who Now Own It [2024 Loraine Williams Poetry Prize Featured Finalist]
Even the dark
unbolting, even the ducks
at the edge of the river, even the dock
at the sea’s wide corner, the job lot
of my horseless valley, even the night I thought
my luck had run out, when I
for Isa
My ears or a field of ears I lie on the couch and dream of low grasses my back a weak margin steered off course into an ocean so placental I barely recognize the form hear me …
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I am going to leave my trace history
that shiver of blood down the tunnel
of vein to someone probably a stranger
definitely not to the children
I’ve never had the truth
in the matter is something like
a riot
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My brother releases the ant and it makes a quick descent into a plastic bottle cap topped off with Elmer’s Glue. The ant struggles in the viscosity of it. It’s a test he’s designed, in the name of science, …
Read MoreOf all the things she will remember about Sabina, Kadogo will cherish her laughter most. How it started in the belly and slowly worked its way up her throat before bursting out of her full lips like a rejuvenated river, …
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Columbia, Missouri, 2011
ganged with bright, blue-fringed petals that grew
deeper into their lavender each dusk, each dusk I,
freshly off work and on foot, feet slip resistant and pants
khakied, used the little bushes as distraction,
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Sekina, Viola Davis & Hattie McDaniel Make a Dadaist Film circa 1863 [2023 Loraine Williams Poetry Prize Featured Finalist]
OVER BLACK: A TRUE EVENT
EXT. PLANTATION – DAY & NIGHT
CUE MUSIC: A DUBSTEP REMIX OF “BEKTOUB ISMAK YA HABIBI,” FAIROUZ.
Three vulva-shaped spaceships hover above an otherwise-empty plantation. From the middle of each spaceship, a hatch opens, …
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