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Just another one for you, darling AMY HOOD
arms of the maples on winter afternoons. and you told me if you don’t.
and altogether too warm for November.
I don’t even have enough love
and wires for a heart.
MANMADE YJ LEE
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First Day of Fall Classes
There is a mouse
GOOD INTENTIONS ALEXA MASI
and while you wouldn’t want to appear so enthusiastic about
and allow the little raindrop scurry chewed out from cereal boxes to go unpunished. But could it be that something so small for a grown man to catch? when I feel the most compelled
EVERYTHING HAS COME TO AN END
you are doing your best.
JOHN HUBBARD
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Columbus Day No Classes
CRIMSON YJ LEE WRITTEN AFTER STARING INTO THE FACE OF BETRAYAL JOSE ROMAN
The deepness of the woods instills a fear
It lives in alabaster woods of birch When dealing with Old Mother Nature’s trees Be watchful of each leaf and every breeze.
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DINGHY
FRANK CARDEW two thieves on a yacht. gun –
strength to the legs down thin streets and up stones and up steps and a balcony and a cigarette.
Porch Lit by door
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STARLIT REVERIE
MICHELLE NGUYEN as if though luminous pentagons could render ideas as law Elliptical pathways of masses roaming galaxies distant— hushed by the mute prayer of a child clasped to the window
LIZARD
ASHLYN WIEBALCK
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Martin Luther King
Agringadas
JENNIFER KRONMILLER i would watch my tongue in the mirror curl upwards in prayer so that i could say your name i learned about Raúl Valdés and casabe bread when we greeted i embraced you second person plural you all embraced until the years turned stale.
and an accent you learned from Jersey Shore so different than my childhood imitations.
WAYFARER IN UMBRA
BENJAMIN LANDSBERG
and this isn’t even abandonment or acculturation We were always the same shade.
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CHOCOLATE MAN JENNY ELKIN
Cardboard tied with old shoelaces around his chest Impenetrable armor. Hands cupped around his mouth to add volume As if that will help against the roar of urban life. time long gone.
way Grimacing and holding their purses close Cascades of obscenities following Leaving ample Space between a stampede of sanity And the chocolate man in the bowler hat Cupping his hands and calling for Jesus
CHINATOWN ASHLYN WIEBALCK
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Strong WILLED, WEAK HANDS AYLISH O’SULLIVAN
My Father’s hands are chapped Smelling of cloves and motor oil. The metallic aluminum smell wafting from outside Drawing my attention to From him. My grandfather’s hands are chapped Smelling of coconut sap and bamboo. The sound of the myna birds drifting in from outside Matches the steady strums as he plays those strings for me. Now concerning. As his memory slips away From him.
Sometimes repeatedly.
GOSSAMER
Or tear apart Because all they do is tremble
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I JUST CAN’t imagine ALEXA MASI
It must be strange to see the bird from the branch. not so high at all. And so maybe it is strange to have the word drawn from my chest. to be written in slowly rusting red.
INTO TOWN
ASHLYN WIEBALCK
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COVER THE LIGHT BILL SHANER
It’s beating down on me while a dam in my mind the riverbed dries.
rain will restore the natural order. at the alter of the sun I am sure of it.
BALLOON LENA KING
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INSHALLAH
CHRISTINA BIVONA
TOPOGRAPhY YJ LEE
I hated seventh grade geography And I still hate memorizing the longitudes
But ever since I’ve been on this new conquest
Lines diverge and converge beneath an
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CHANTALLE HANNA My little wooden couple at Khan al Halili My stoic lady a column dressed in blue
that litter the zebbulline their walls reverberating with life the smile painted on your face. My little wooden man your wife so much taller than you
composed mainly of minarets soaring
two sides to one city’s story my mismatched couple coexisting incongruous in my bedroom and opposite the acute angle
DANCING WITH CAMELS CHRISTINA BIVONA
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