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May 2023

Cover artist: Tré Seals

Don’t let the world
and its desires
ruin you.

Cynthia Cruz
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  • Assotto Saint
  • Kim Hyesoon
  • Toi Derricotte
  • Mona Kareem
  • Randall Mann
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From this Issue
    • poem

      Appeared in Poetry Magazine Postscript

      By Marie Howe
      What we did to the earth, we did to our daughters
      one after the other.

      What we did to the trees, we did to our elders
      stacked in their wheelchairs by the lunchroom door.

      What we did to our daughters, we did to our...

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    • poem

      Appeared in Poetry Magazine We Got Used to the Surprises

      By Robert Wood Lynn
      until there were none left
      and we had to breed them
      in captivity. Nature continued
      to re-evolve its crab. Possum
      hands insisted on looking
      like ours for no good reason.
      It’s not that we let ourselves
      down. But there was something
      predictable about us. Our smiles
      identically involuntary while...

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    • poem

      Appeared in Poetry Magazine Renting

      By Brian Tierney
      Dogs barking do you hear me do you hear me yes I do
      the abridged version, sun having shone all day on their chains.
      Late-lunch squirrels lathing loquats
      with their buck front teeth and carrots

      disappearing from the community garden for seasonal soups
      no one...

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POEMS
DÉJÀ VU: A FOLIO ON ASSOTTO SAINT
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