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             Read ReadPlainclothes AgendaMy interdisciplinary art practice evolved from drawings I made while sharing open and public spaces with others.
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             Read ReadGBU – 43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast (aka ‘mother of all bombs’) • Terror CollageI fall into the mountain side; I burn in / to the twisting serpent of chambers / hidden there. I am wild for the underlength / of tunnels and beautiful men who run like blood.
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             Read ReadWithin His Birdcage • JoeGive me that handkerchief someone dropped on the corner next to the stand / where those suits are trying to swap sunlight for twenty buckets of swampland
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             Read Read“Black Dog Found” and other poemsBehind some airport some quiet organ -ization ignites a portable flare stack. Cindy, whose depression is tropical, is not yet a hurricane.
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             Read ReadIt’s me, Mom.My parents gave up a comfortable life in China so that their children could have better opportunities.
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             Read ReadOn Race and Small Talk with the NeighborsWe found our home driving through the neighborhood adjacent to where I used to live when I was single.
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             Read ReadIncel “Empowerment”I have spent the last couple of weeks surveying online discussion forums populated by self-identified “incels,” a community of categorically straight men who claim their “involuntary celibacy” as a condition of oppression.
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             Read ReadDuring a Beat Bobby Flay marathon I think — • Feast DayI should study knife skills / or fish deboning. Have you / ever held fresh, dead chicken?
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             Read ReadFear of Long WordsLong after mother had said / “goodbye” to her piano, / Dad — dead drunk, / broke her mandolin.
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             Read Read#MeToo • An Ode to Hair in the MustardSo #MeToo cuts her ponytail off, walks into a bar and takes a seat next to #MeToo and the bartender serves #MeToo whiskey from an eyedropper
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             Read ReadApostropheI was ten years old. We were against the wall, all twelve of us, like a criminal lineup outside the girls’ locker room.
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             Read ReadDiasporic Fever DreamThe river / splinters / its many / tributaries, / veins feeding / new shores / The cutting stone / juts
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             Read ReadMark’s Tumor (When I Needed it Most) • My Mother(’s) Remains“How quickly this life does go by.” Tonight / I wrote the last letters / to my poetry students.
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             Read ReadEditor’s NotePower is a prism through which we can view an array of social issues, be it power and politics, power and gender, power and youth, power and privacy, power and abuse, or power and privilege.
