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A Portrait of America in Trash

By Jose Padua I give to you a portrait of America in trash.
I give it to you with love and respect, America:
mountains of beer cans crumpled, plastic figures

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Build You Up

By Alison Roh Park If it were not so scarred from your accidental
rages—uptown, upstate—I would have rested
on the cinder block of your chest.

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the butcher

by: Ghinwa Jawhari

once built a small home on his own land before it was / flattened, stolen.

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Black Mermaids and Swimming and Red Hair and Ancestry

by: Sasa Aakil

They say, black folks can't swim and I think of my brother.

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Ode to My Older Sister, Letty, for Being the First in the Family to Go to College

by: Jose Hernandez Diaz

when you came // And substituted at my high school. All the kids giggling: is that your sister?

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After Hours at the Garment Factory

by: Amatan Noor

Alas, the sky has been seething crimson / for half a century

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prongs into the nation

by: Samah Serour Fadil

it’s funny how money changes situations / twists straight roads ahead to fit lie into truth

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