1. The people I know from home meet the people I know from here and I become two different people at once. I code switch mid-sentence. I have spent the last two years speaking in a learned accent. Is my real voice a perfect mix of what I was given and what I have learned? […]
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I renounce rice when I am nine, the way one might renounce Barbie dolls, or multiplicationsheets, or vocabulary quizzes—unpretentious, without pomp. Baba continues to serve me braised pork belly and tomatoes with egg, eyes soft like steamed gingered fish, never once picking at thehaggard bones of autumn: how I unearthed dead silkworms from the garden, or how I would […]
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should i learn pythonshould i buy a praying mantis should i start wearing pendants am i a pendant idiot now am i getting the hang of it or being annoying? is it a nail or a needle in my eye andshould i trap the little ghostliving in the weird room in the basement we never go in or talk […]
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you slip out the open door of my spine. when i pass you in dim-lit hallways, my fingers brush your wrists, lingering, unbodied. i dream of you – perched in air, eyes strange and diya-limned. my throat is still cupped between your hands. i do not take it back. i dream of girlhood: unhesitant, unblinking. saying, relentlessly. – i […]
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Crimen de un corazón que no recuerdo 1 I want to feel the serenity a normal person does when they walk along the beach or maybe hire a dream hitman To everyone who had the misfortune of being born on my birthday—i was born on march 24, 1982 at 5 a.m.—and they flew black steamers […]
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Emily as Sometimes the Forest Wants the Fire by Darren C. Demaree is exactly the bright, crackling ode that its title suggests. Emily is a dynamic shapeshifter, assuming nature’s many forms, from human to flower to debris. The poems in this collection are certainly heavy with the stumbling navigation of love and vulnerability, but they […]
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Octavia Tomyn describes herself as an extreme extrovert who loves meeting people as part of her work. It also seems like she loves representing people as part of her work. Her Instagram page shows hundreds of human figures, sketched in a single black line, but which still depict a strong individuality and subtle emotion. Octavia […]
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VAGABOND CITY 