Editor’s Note
For this issue, we are interested in stories of size and scope. What are the micro-decisions and actions that you’ve taken to fight against unjust systems?
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ReadVerbicide • Autopoiesis
i name a thing & occupy its territory. i hear / glory, is to kill this image with the sound of hooves -
ReadNumber Line • The roof
With a soul, we are about 8 degrees warmer / than without one. -
ReadThree Memos
Be grateful inside the storm. You are our perfect audience. You are flesh blended into machinery. -
ReadWhen to Eat a Persimmon • Catching up
Earth pocked by shrapnel / and fallen fruit. Heavy trees, intent / on still giving. -
ReadLetting Names Grow Wings
I gather that I must have descended from lesbians; fated for an existence of a certain longing only known to lullabies trembling over oceans. -
ReadAll of Your Dreams Are Evidence of the Web That Holds You
How your body can stay very still while your mind climbs out through the ceiling. -
ReadPost-Mortem • Pre-Mortem
the pleasure of letters and butter and lobsters, nestled / in linen, unable to answer, the pleasure of curtains, / their sun-dappled shadows -
ReadGentle Parenting
It was him who decided the consequences. These consequences still live in my body. -
Readone day we won’t have to hold our breath
the people will not choke the people will choke. the future is a magic eight ball. -
ReadEvery Time a Freedom Fighter Dies
Those stories of activists remain / stories, leaving me to wonder / if wings are quixotic things that only get you pinned -
ReadThe Fullness of Time
Yet what I fall into when I throw myself wholeheartedly into friendships with elders is not time’s scarcity, but its abundance -
ReadThirty Sonic • again & gain & in &
cratered once-oceans / looping the lunar / phases, playing our faces / on shuffle, no [[ agents ]] to label us / illegal -
Readthe big payback • Mrs. Tubman’s toes
Dainty was she, with pistols and desert roses / in the dune mosques of the Sahel that foretold her safeness. -
ReadLittle Changes
What are the micro-decisions and actions that you’ve taken to fight against unjust systems?