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Issue 16: Proximities
Two Poems
Taiye Ojo
Poetry
Every time I look up, it’s still there – the skeleton of the once bustling village where my / father grew up.
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Emma,
Veronica Wasson
Fiction
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Prose
Editor’s Pick
Begin with a name.
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The Haunted
Grace Talusan
Nonfiction
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Prose
The summer before I published my first — and so far, only — book, my husband Alonso and I finally saved enough money and time to spend a week in Paris.
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Affirmation • Learning How To Fish Again
Monique Ouk
Poetry
Every poem I write opens with a parent. How else / do I bless the ones that birthed me?
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Side Effects
M.E. Macuaga
Nonfiction
,
Prose
We sit across from each other to play the game Othello.
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I Was A Child Disappearing Into Whatever I Touched
Cypress Manning
Art
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Poetry
In the house is a horse, or the house itself is a horse.
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On the Impossibility of Owning Lake Michigan • Animal
Daad Sharfi
Poetry
in the beginning there were no lines no markers of where & what belong to whom / or why
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Skinning the Fox • Against Salvation
Raye Hendrix
Poetry
Still dark out when my father pulls / the trigger.
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I ORDER A NEW MOTHER IN THE MAIL
emet ezell
Poetry
the mother circulates through Berlin’s arteries, / smacking through streets and bike lanes until a / DHL worker delivers her to my front door.
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full circle • & it’s the power of suggestion
Tina Zafreen Alam
Poetry
soundtrack: fall in love (remix), slum village / because it just might, / i dance like my life depends on it.
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Two Books : Longer Looks
Ellen Wiener
Art
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Featured Artwork
Mixed media artist Ellen Wiener on the featured art for issue 16.
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One Square Inch of Silence
Jessica Mooney
Nonfiction
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Prose
I said goodbye to my father for the first and last time, after his death, in the quietest place in the United States.
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Inventory • Please Give Your Fundraiser a Title—
Sarah Matsui
Poetry
He owns seven New Balance shoes, all rights / that have lost in this house their one-time partners.
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Polaroid: Prison Visit poems
Nick Martino
Poetry
Here, lens flare recalls the burn holes in her nightgown.
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The Ad Hoc Cartography of Nightmares
Jesse Gabriel González
Poetry
The problem with draining the world from your head / is what rushes in to take its place.
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