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Olive Oil Cake and a Raspberry
Taneum Bambrick
It’s Wednesday night in California. We sit on metal chairs, which shriek like helicopter blades clattering across the cement of a repurposed parking ...
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Diorama 1871 (Head Resting Against a Lace Antimacassar)
I don't get to be the same person each time, but still, think of all the atrocities I've climbed out of. It helps to carry a rope. I sound ominous but what I'm saying ...
Super Bloom
America, like a monstrous sow vomiting cars and appliances into a green ooze resembling dollar bills, where is my America? Agnostic and uninsured, I eat celery, onions, and ...
Golden
Everything will be fine, to paraphrase the anchoress, and everything will be golden, like a crock of manuka honey or hand-picked Bartlett pear, or like the ...
Dream with Gun and Five-Year-Old Daughter
Hours before the divorce was final, the day the divorce became final, I woke, knowing the dream I had just dreamt could not be touched, the dream in which my daughter took the ...
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The story goes the man waited until the customers cleared the bank before robbing it. He hoped to be caught, because he struggled with his health and needed health ...
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Michael Prior
Like Boccaccio’s idle rich, we tell ourselves stories to avoid admitting we can’t go back. The islands in my mind, vaster than this island on a ...
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Megan Fernandes
After you left, I put on the Pixies, lit a cigarette and looked out at the rain on the slate rooftops of Lazio, grey, riddled with satellites and slanted, orange ...
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My Doctor Warns Me Against Travel Abroad or What Is a Dream to Me
Camille Rankine
To grieve an American grief a delicate feeling: from afar wistful and brief To grow soft on the milk ...
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The Space Where I Make a Life Is a Rented Room
Cathy Linh Che
I retrofitted a shelter. Burned driftwood. Drove a gash across the country, slept in the car, dreaming, of you. I was in love and erasing the ...
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Boy With Thorn
Jesse Nathan
Wedged in my plantar fascia’s rivers of tissue, the tip of a spike from the locust tree—some long as a boning knife—whose thorn ...
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Table of Men
Ama Codjoe
What I want from you has little to do with sex, though it, like wine and bread, rests on the table between us: the curse that escapes your craned neck; the way you ...
