Tonight No Poetry Will Serve by Adrienne Rich Saw you walking barefoottaking a long lookat the new moon’s eyelid later spreadsleep-fallen, naked in your dark hairasleep but not obliviousof the unslept unsleepingelsewhere Tonight I thinkno poetrywill serve Syntax of rendition: verb pilots the planeadverb modifies action verb force-feeds nounsubmerges the subjectnoun is chokingverb     disgraced     goes on doing …

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Thank God I Can’t Drive by Camonghne Felix My brain is trying so hard to outrun this. It is doing more work than the lie.I could go to jail for anything. I look like that kind of girl. I only speak one language. I amof prestige but can’t really prove it. Not if my hands …

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Femme futures by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha Where does the future live in your body?Touch it 1 Sri Lankan radical women never come alone.We have a tradition of coming in groups of three or four.The Thiranagama sisters may be the most beloved and famous,but in the 20s my appamma and great aunties were the Wild Alvis …

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Hematology by sam sax while he lives here’s a list of images light in a filthy glass pigeon dead on the high spiked window clear plastic bag above him full of water if water could kill everything that lives in you & it can —  i sit in a corner of the cancer ward fingering the …

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Smell Is the Last Memory to Go by Fatimah Asghar on my block, a gateon my block, a tree smelling of citrus & jasmine that knocksme back into the arms of my dead mother. i ask Ross how can a treebe both jasmine & orange, on my block my neighbors put up gates & staredon’t …

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