“Oh, the typewriter in my bones— / yes, I would miss that click/clack the most.”

“Cross/Bite” by Tiana Clark from I Can’t Talk About the Trees Without the Blood

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“This costume / works best if the baby / is nowhere to be found.”

“What Will She Go As?” from Hard Child by Natalie Shapero

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“I have so much debt. / I am forever in the wettest red.”

“BBHMM” by Tiana Clark from I Can’t Talk About the Trees Without the Blood

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“I bought the bound One Thousand Names / for Baby, made two lists: one if she’s born breathing, / one if not. The second list was longer.”

“My Hand and Cold” by Natalie Shapero from Hard Child

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“Who keeps the hours / I can’t remember?”

“Tim” by Tiana Clark from I Can’t Talk About the Trees Without the Blood

TW: SA

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my new glasses came in, and while I’m no stranger to thick lenses, these feel almost comical

“yesterday is the wrong answer, tomorrow too / despite memory, i believe / in hunger”

“White Boy Time Machine: Software” by Hieu Minh Nguyen from Not Here

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“my mother will die before me. / My mother, who, by then, will love me / will die.”

“Politics of an Elegy” by Hieu Minh Nguyen from Not Here

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“Kate, Kate, we have become / such anesthesiologists, terrified of the smallest error.”

“Dear Kate” by Charlie Peck from World’s Largest Ball of Paint

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“to the corona / to the new. / Enough of you, motherglue—“

“Aria for the Body” by Jan Beatty from Boneshaker

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“Mr. Salton said, ‘I can’t wait to see who / all of you become,’ as if he didn’t already know.”

“The Radio Show” by Charlie Peck from World’s Largest Ball of Paint

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“Missy, this is me moving on. / There’s a noon rain to get caught in and many / clavicles to behold.”

“Because You Can’t” by K. Iver from Short Film Starring My Beloved’s Red Bronco

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“Nostalgia” by K. Iver from Short Film Starring My Beloved’s Red Bronco
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