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Issue No. 32

Maria Stepanova

Eugene Ostashevsky

Poetry

Issue No. 32

If anyone in your global city still holds me, exile, in memory, Know that I died as soon as they read out the sentence. I live...

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February 2022

Leaving tongues

Ahana Banerji

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February 2022

You wrap my fingers in the leaves, wintergreen,  twisting psalms between loose teeth.    Bound, I swear to something...

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February 2022

Halloween in America

Nina Reljić

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February 2022

Dogs dressed as other animals The gauze that hangs over houses reminds me of sickness   The church does...

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February 2022

If I Could Just Bring Myself

Simon Middleton

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February 2022

to run a damp cloth along every surface of that room, it could be different.   Instead I’m in...

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February 2022

The Old Justice

Fahad Al-Amoudi

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February 2022

My grandfather was a construction worker, a travel agent; I knew him as a sea-captain, wink like an eye-patch,...

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February 2022

‘Passport as freedom papers’ I

Sumia Juxun

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February 2022

(Title after a line from Momtaza Mehri’s poem ‘Mouthwash’).   ‘A home is only as safe as flesh’ –...

POPE JOAN AT FIFTEEN, DREAMING ON THE BOG, ASCENDS TO ANGELHOOD

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February 2022

Annie Hayter

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February 2022

Joan salted their stone kneecaps bathed a secret in the simmer of a reckless young head & brocaded shoulders   a set of wings...

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February 2022

Where My Body is Cactus

Prerana Kumar

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February 2022

for my sister   At least the supple mirage of sisterhood; a fleshy lap, a string of pulp-flowers in...

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February 2022

stuck

Sanah Ahsan

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February 2022

i made a mosque in the mouth of a white girl when i was seventeen deserted myself to worship...

Six Poems

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February 2022

Natalie Perman

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February 2022

in a sheltered garden    in the business lounge the new state scientists invented for very hard things, men break into the heated pool....

 

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