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ReadSmoke Screens
The week the pandemic hits, I break my lease in Little Haiti and drive fifteen hours up the I-95 to be with my parents. -
ReadThis Country is Motherless and Makes me Forget
I am not. Two weeks or more since a call. To be in America, / You must see American, close your eyes and dream American -
ReadThere is No Other Way to Say This
Every morning the sparrows sing / Every day there is another funeral -
Readhere’s the space i carry. here’s the space that’s empty. • this our sunken sweet parade
so let's talk then about unruliness / how it defies the joys of order & everything / that's missed. -
ReadEnough Rain
Quail rise in ruffles from the sage. / Pebbles I scraped into my knee look / like they belong there. -
ReadIn Bad Faith
Elsewhere a bell rings /medieval in its calling and here / I fumble for a reliquary -
ReadNo One is Taking the Doughnut Shortage Seriously (and all that that implies)
— or the ketchup packet one / over in the adjacent deli, the dearth of good strawberries / in produce. -
ReadThose People
In 1996, the year my mother died of a heroin overdose, Purdue Pharma started to sell OxyContin in the United States. -
ReadThis disappearing, how it makes • thread/bare
house become island, as inland pushes out / land. Outlandish, you say, this push and pull— -
ReadI want my story to be ordinary.
I / am ruined / how could I / ever leave / this wound -
ReadThe Coop in August • The Last One to Get the Message
The form asks for / my job. Stay-at-home-parent, / a response given by the dozen, / lands wrong these months. -
ReadAn Essay on Processing
TSW Art Director, Meg Sykes, on creating the featured image for Issue 13: Rebellious Joy -
ReadRest Begets Rest: Community Postcards
TSW Artist in Residence, Bianca Ng, on creating the featured art for Issue 13: Rebellious Joy -
ReadRest Begets Rest: An Essay
TSW Artist in Residence, Bianca Ng, writes a meditative inquiry into rest -
ReadRebellious Joy Resource Guide
A companion guide of supplemental materials for Issue 13: Rebellious Joy