Occupational Hazards
“I wake and the world is shaking again birds / slam buoyant voices bruised goldmorning light”
Contest Winner
The Oldest Forest
“The water was a place / sequestered, isolate and strange, a small glove / for a smallish soul”
2022 Sappho Prize: Winners & Finalists
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I just wanted to see what it would do when I say—
From behind its aluminum dermis, / the machine transcribes the living, / studying the sound a muscle makes skipped / across roof of mouth.
CNN’s correspondent thinks afghani means Afghan
By Liala Zaray
“My afghanis are quietly pressed into palms and secretly traded / When ready for purchase, I place my afghanis face side up”
Theodicy
“About our bodies, strangers in white / deliver the news; in some places, the only option / is the option Mary had.”
2022 Emerging Poet Prize: Winners & Finalists
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Partition Homes
How many words do I / know for hunger? What is the nestling space /
between two countries / of conflict called?
Self-Portrait in Lust
I vulture myself when I touch you, /
my stomach its own feast, my tongue a prayer for a tongue.