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The Eroding Iron of Memories Replenished by Shome Dasgupta

Shome Dasgupta is the author of i am here And You Are Gone (Winner Of The 2010 OW Press Fiction Chapbook Contest), The Seagull And The Urn (HarperCollins India, 2013) which has been republished in the UK by Accent Press as The Sea Singer (2016), Anklet And Other Stories (Golden…

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Three Poems by Dorothy Chan

Dorothy Chan is the author of Chinese Girl Strikes Back (Spork Press, forthcoming 2020), Revenge of the Asian Woman (Diode Editions, March 2019), Attack of the Fifty-Foot Centerfold (Spork Press, 2018), and the chapbook Chinatown Sonnets (New Delta Review, 2017). Chan is an Assistant Professor of English at the University…

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Three Poems by CL Bledsoe

Three Poems By CL Bledsoe   My Brother Is Getting Old I wanted to ask what stole the brown from his beard, painted his thinning hair gray, stooped him over when he tries   to stand? Was it the same bastard who stole my spare time and made my knees hurt?…

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Learning To Plant Trees With My Father While My Mother’s Ghost Sings by Nome Emeka Patrick

Learning to Plant Trees With My Father While My Mother’s Ghost Sings By Nome Emeka Patrick i am planting trees inside a dream blur enough for even God’s eyes. in the distance, my father’s voice dances in the wind under the wings of golden seagulls. my hands are in the…

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Someone He Loved by Matthew Thorburn

Someone He Loved By Matthew Thorburn * Where did the chords go Uncle Albert used to play those chiming bells bowls of bright water he raised high with both * hands before his stroke his black coat always on the silver stick pin shining his eyes to the ceiling is…

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Two Poems by Anastasia Stelse

Two Poems By Anastasia Stelse * Contents Most people don’t realize the stomach’s power, don’t consider it when contemplating murder. Forensic science has made leaps—delving into a five hundred year old bog body’s leathery purse— nuts, fruits, meats—we can pinpoint region, season, how long after eating death occurred. We can…

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Hats Off to (Marcelino) Bernal by Jose Oseguera

Hats Off to (Marcelino) Bernal By Jose Oseguera We jumped out of our seats As high as our Nike Airs allowed us, And yelled Viva México In spite of being reprimanded By our teacher not to speak Spanish in the classroom, Even though it was technically recess. * “El pinche…

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Two Poems by Micki Blenkush

Two Poems By Micki Blenkush   Underground                           after chromogenic print # 6411 by Naoya Hatakeyama   It’s hard to tell where else to look when the light, specifically placed, casts pure the concrete wash.   What I…

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Three Poems by Romeo Oriogun

Three Poems by Romeo Oriogun * Exile There’s a place I was given,A horse with its broken legs.Lord, I tend to this brief thing called life like a manCaring for a beast that eats what it loves.I can’t help this loneliness of people walking away from my eyes,It is how…

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An Afternoon Is a Test of Faith and I am Gone Again by E. Kristin Anderson

An Afternoon Is a Test of Faith and I am Gone Again (After the X-Files) By E. Kristin Anderson I confess this sin:         I have accepted the beast in me.         And I want it to rain. Hard.        Like you, Dana Scully,…

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