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Ajanaé Dawkins

Last Century, Last Week: Holy Will

By Ajanaé Dawkins what is it ‘bout the river that makes even spirits sing? we hear a laugh & don’t know if its ours or our momma’s; our sister’s or otherworld kin. what current of possibilities. we could splash, laugh, water-dance. hell, we could baptize somebody. wash the wet of us they said would stay dirty our whole lives.
Yanyi

Immigration

By Yanyi The teacup with the broken
handle: no longer missing.
Arriving in my mother’s hand
as she sets it down for service.
Then the dish in the air touches
down at its place on red carpet
and the Fisher Price karaoke mic
rights and repairs itself.
JoAnn Balingit

Water Birth

By JoAnn Balingit There’s no usurping her pain
now the baby’s head is crowning
mom mom mom mom mom

no panting I say
take deep breaths through your nose
Jzl Jmz

Obligation #25 (TRANSACTION)

By Jzl Jmz I CROSS MY LEGS - I BRUSH
MY CLAVICLE / I PITCH MY
LAUGH - I LAUGH - I LOOK
AWAY / I SMILE
Quenton Baker

I AM IN THE WEATHER

By Quenton Baker every cloud that rolls off the ocean
pours my dead on me

the mad
the sick
the brave
the faceted
who chose the wave over their making
Cass Garison

On Reverence

By Cass Garison I adore the carnations & I adore
the trains, specifically the boxcars
with endings & beginnings I can’t

keep track of, who drag their stretched
torsos like absolute creatures around
what seems like earth’s clearest curve.
Mia S. Willis

for imam khaliifah ibn rayford daniels.

By Mia S. Willis when the state murdered a poet
none of us slept none of us deserved to
the way we stood by with pens and phones and helpless guilt
Taylor Alyson Lewis

milk river

By Taylor Alyson Lewis there once was an island love or magic resurrected
where they could go to rest and look at
each other plainly and hold one another’s
hands and play music in their cars so that
the bass reverberated through the mountains
and down into the ocean and live.
Jalynn Harris

Druid Hill Park, Baltimore MD

By Jalynn Harris At the entrance, six copper pillars stand tall as a wave
as once did six-fingered Lucille. She lived here, too–

The light alone enough to fill the lake. I walk the park
because I’m weak. All flesh and fur needing

to get out my bark. My rough squeeze of please please
A red bird. Another mile. My feet eat the concrete.
Samia Saliba

historicity

By Samia Saliba golden shovel after karl marx, walter benjamin, richard siken, & zaina alsous

“the tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living”
- karl marx

in american cemeteries the dead overlap, the
hillside ostentatious in the catholic tradition.
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