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On Rivers
notes on anticipation
ALHS
Poetry
In this moment that has come to happen / in other moments, the notes / of birds nestled in my asking.
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Two Poems
Laura Da’
Poetry
The new year begins in winter white embroidery— / trumpeter swans and needle-slim herons piercing / drainage ditches.
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Memory, a Lacuna
Vanessa Angélica Villarreal
Nonfiction
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Prose
My mother and grandmother were born in ‘the land of the lake,’ or La Comarca de la Laguna, a cradle of fertile land between the Sierra Madre mountain ranges in the northern Mexican desert
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Every Morning I Take a Bus Through the West Bank (II)
Tarik Dobbs
Poetry
Editor’s Pick
As I look out upon a landscape now heavily shaped by American colonialism, I know another world is possible.
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Math Problem with a River
Hua Xi
Poetry
A farmer with a wolf, a goat and a cabbage must cross a river by boat.
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Tributary
W.T. Joshua
Poetry
The year I meet granpa my hands mimic clouds. / Charybdis turning turpid pools / beneath his globes— vision I have awaited.
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For the Gentleness of Our Leaving
Geffrey Davis
Nonfiction
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Prose
I started asking rivers to feed me as a child—literally, with flesh from fish, then figuratively, with flashes of comfort.
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SAMBATYON
David Naimon
Nonfiction
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Prose
There is a river, lost or hidden, that is impossible to pass six days each week.
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