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5.2

Help me build this o so exquisite bridge

R L Swihart

Anna, Ania, Anka. I know you’re the go-to girl, but may I / call you Sylvia // Don’t you agree: so much of life is given to domestic chores, / hygienic gestures, and playing their game

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5.2

Brandy

Kandie St.Germain

In Madrid, the bartenders / speak in cursive. Clairvoyants, / all of them. They volunteer / burnt wine, sweeten it / with candy-stripes.

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5.2

Blueprint For A Human

Emily Carr

The book that was her marriage still sitting on the kitchen table (like Roosevelt flowers or the ancient moon). Broken sandwiches & soft hills. A paper napkin crumpled in the water spilled through...

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5.2

Atrium Vestae Plans C, E, & F

Jessy Randall

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5.2

We Grow Impervious to the Hour

Mark Russell

After that, I had only to deal in nuptials.

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5.2

coin park

Susanne Eules

proper currency is legitimate in any light & likes to stay near its wages : it's the haunterers & / the premeneers : the pie cock who walks up to you : uncurls his van of vanities & voughs hell /...

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5.2

Between the Ice and the Gelisol

Benjamin Solomon

Although they have been summarily rejected and relegated to near obscurity, Howard Barraclough’s Terminus fragments were the source of major controversy in the early years of the 35th century.

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5.2

Vermin Psalm

Michael Berger

They come from pores, (the city’s) to remind us of cheese. / Which is just another word for desire.

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5.2

Politics

Zoe Abedon

The boy started with remarkable eyes, a vision that could skip across bodies of water to distant lands like stones smoothed by waves.

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5.2

A mass of boyish faces

S Cearley

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5.2

Lady Marina: Proposed Skyscraper in Lagos, Nigeria

Stephen Ajadi

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5.2

Bumper Crop

James Kincaid

I had in mind something the coarse lout Harry you want me to be would produce on bucolic discomfort, featuring yobbish imagery: beasts coupling, insects stinging, cows spraying, the ubiquitous...

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More from 5.2

Susanne Eules

in the claude glass

it's a nice thing to have a hare to sit with his haress / in the field. naturally & fur color. the color of fur & / naturally. it is the best hair. arid heat ferries harvester / thresher.

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R L Swihart

Both/And

The small Craftsman by the lagoon. Desiree on the top step / and his three graces staggered beneath. Three sample / bags of Mary Kay. The pomegranate in amber / hues

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Kandie St.Germain

An Expat Sings a Song of Herself

I whispered slush. You chewed my ice. / So I sank into the early burial of irises.

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From the Archives

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Record-Rama and the Sordid Stories of Our Stuff: Part 2 of 2

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Joseph Farley

Explosive Art

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Kelly Connor

through which light passes easily

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