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Poetry

Exiles

by A.D. Capili

You remind me the blind in the bedroom is broken: I need to call somebody in Dutch, which already makes my thinking stutter;the cat peed again outside ...read the full piece >>

Poetry

False Positives

by Sarp Sozdinler

The test said I was53% Middle Eastern19% Caucasus0% certainty and 100% tryingto build a nest out ofmortar and bricks I scrolled past the mapzoomed in ...read the full piece >>

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I'm from Elsewhere

by Shaira Sultana

Where the sundoesn’t burnit tans Where we paintwith mehnditraced on brown skin Savour gheeon every plateand sugarcane We embellish our disheswith ...read the full piece >>

Poetry

Lacrimosa

by Rudrangshu Sengupta

1. Did you know there’s a flood in the mirror everytime you blink?The night sways in silk, in the hush of an ocean that never stops whispering. ...read the full piece >>

Poetry

Layers of Home

by Leila Zolfalipour

In the backyard where the air hums,I stand, where both lands converge,A quiet bridge between the roots of my past,And the soil that holds my footsteps ...read the full piece >>

Poetry

Rooms :: Under Siege

by Elina Kumra

I. The shelter which is concrete-gray or maybe dust-white, and mattresseson the floor and little fists stick out of blankets andolive-brown cheeks and ...read the full piece >>

Poetry

Still & Μωβ

by Vasiliki Sifostratoudaki

Still & Μωβ[1] still[2]There is nothing that doesn’t fit in writing or couldn’t grow in it.I had no land nor space, she was with me, from toes to ...read the full piece >>

Poetry

Wallflowers Are Black

by Hajer Requiq

I am not the same woman you left.That woman was chinaware, pottery-work.I have nothing to do with things that break.My mother gave birthto a huddle of ...read the full piece >>

Poetry

You

by Marisol Moreno Ortiz

You are shavings of colored pencils — curves, uneven edges, and splinters underneath skin. You are a puzzle in every world with different zippers hand ...read the full piece >>

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