Sharper Than
“Honed a kind of malingering, for most of that stint – / part-response to my farm-crazed aunt’s / unsparing miserableness.”
Poetry
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Girl Werewolf
By Emma Buckley
“The wolf-girl is content that she prayed so hard for sharp teeth, / as the washing machines spin like the records used to do, / and the streetlights buzz like door-to-door salesman or houseflies”
Lover of Faith, Lover of Marble
“before the insects trill their morning song / after the sisters snore their night prayers / we each take up cloth and name”
I Call the Thing That Was Before Us Lucy Because It Bore Her Shape
“even as you pray what’s between you / and disaster is more than tape / and padded cups.”
The Black Birthing Room
“why am i thinking about doing my hair before i see to this fever / straightening myself up before i treat this sickness”
Caravaggio Fever Dream
“I regret / that I never mentioned you in my sleep, never thought / that you might want me to leave the porch light on / for a thousand saints to welcome you to my home.”
Dream
By Amy Thatcher
They lifted me / into a sitting position, / fed me like an infant, / easy to love.
concatenation
By Tara Mukund
“19 i have never heard anything / 20 more beautiful. i scrawl / 21 / 22 the data into my skull, / 23 it is my source code now.”
Mouth mirror or elegy for my premolar
By Martins Deep
“i do / not want to sing / of this ruin that cast its shadow in my mouth”