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By Paul Tran Desert born. Wild
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Bitch. Itchy clit.
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Old Blood

By Jennifer Maritza McCauley Before they tell us how to look
at our kilt brothers' bodies:

Tell them we already know how to see ‘em.

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poem of the week

What the Bees Taught Me

by: Nickole Brown

With my child hand / to the screen, I never could tell if it was static / I felt or static I could hear, / which is and is not / the same.

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What the Bees Taught Me

by: Nickole Brown

With my child hand / to the screen, I never could tell if it was static / I felt or static I could hear, / which is and is not / the same.

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nextdoor app

by: Shabnam Piryaei

you lie perfectly still directly in the white beam of light rivulets running from magnolia leaves down your temples into the soil.

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In a Thicket of Body-Bent Grass

by: Jessica Jacobs

...Forelegs origamied into a mantis prayer,
they are poised to spring even when sleeping,
survival a balance between stillness and startle.

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Lineage

by: Jenny Xie

It was the border of adulthood, those fallow years / Even then she understood the living carry on by being fluid

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