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41.1 Patrick Holian

Safeway Roses I. during the fourth and penultimate world war, a soldier— a warrior, really, in the purest and truest sense—rose to power....

Mar 25, 20231 min read

41.1 Kwame Dawes

The Darkest Elation This is the darkest elation, the moment all walls are breached. Perhaps not the breaking of ramparts, but the vapors...

Mar 25, 20231 min read

41.1 Kate Pyontek

Blue 52 When a whale stops singing, he’s given up asking for anything. A console piano, crushed. No sacrament here, the tabernacle looted...

Mar 25, 20232 min read

41.1 Joshua Burton

Giving Mary Grace For Mary Turner History will submit to you | I will too | Eventually when we are color-pleased | when your dirt speaks...

Mar 25, 20232 min read

41.1 Aristotle Johns

Walmart Breakroom When I walk into the wash of fluorescents, I like to hang my blue vest on the back of a folding chair. There is no...

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41.1 Laura Rubenstein

Here Lies the Body I. I am lying in bed, indulging in one of my lurid fantasies of deep rest. I imagine I am being smuggled out of...

Mar 25, 202316 min read

41.1 Robert Osborne

Swing The man pulls the shell from the boathouse and hauls it onto the dock like it’s a fish he just caught. He regards it critically,...

Mar 25, 20232 min read

41.1 Marianne Chan

Watching the Winter Olympics at 3 a.m., and I Want to Win Gold in something, anything, as my infant daughter drains my left breast, and...

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41.1 Fullamusu Bangura

i'm so fine after khadijah queen after i wrote the book i cut all my hair off so yes i haven’t always been a baldheaded baddie except for...

Mar 25, 20233 min read

41.1 imogen xtian smith

Heartthrobbing Heartthrobbing beatpulse—what a player you are! Go about yr teasing like it’s Thurs night & you just sent nudes, ring in...

Mar 25, 20233 min read

41.1 Matthew Tuckner

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire In his bone room, Thomas Jefferson displayed the skulls & tusks of wooly mammoths, polished to a...

Mar 25, 20232 min read

41.1 Nick Martino

Diatomaceous Earth When it comes in contact with an insect, the silica removes the waxy outer coating from the insect’s exoskeleton....

Mar 25, 202319 min read

41.1 Becky Mandelbaum

Chiclet According to the clock on Janet’s new Fitbit, Seymour Reynolds (male, fifty-four years old, software engineer) was now seventeen...

Mar 25, 20232 min read

41.1 Dorothea Lasky

The Hunters Enter The Scene The day cast a spell Where by ascending so many stones I could not leave the center garden Where my children...

Mar 25, 202316 min read

41.1 Rachel Paris Wimer

We Fly in Planes I thought 9/11 was my fault. I saw it happen on TV. I believed it was because of me and what I had done. Because of all...

Mar 25, 20231 min read

41.1 Alex Tretbar

Claustrophobe’s Sonnet on Metempsychosis Don’t worry: I’ll spare you the worms & flowers. Instead I offer a field of green static on...

Mar 25, 20233 min read

41.1 Rochelle Hurt

Mary Cassatt – The Letter (1890-91) aquatint and drypoint print made from three plates [i know that look—like something about to break,...

Mar 25, 202316 min read

41.1 Tim Raymond

Crash I have been gifted with misunderstandings. I said that once to my friend Blake, and he said, “I have been gifted with this son’s...

Mar 25, 20231 min read

41.1 Andrew Hemmert

After Moving In a room full of boxes, I am listening to the rain falling on my roof for the first time. It's March. Denver doesn't know...

Mar 25, 20232 min read

41.1 Andrew Zawacki

[FROM] THESE LATE ECLIPSES THE UNITED STATES are not the greatest poem. Unrest in peace: knee, neck, back, choke, sick, tired, ired....