“When I dwell in the ultimate I know / I would know her in any life.”
— Acie Clark
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This poem appeared in Shenandoah, Spring 2025. Shared here with deep gratitude.
“trust the hours. Haven’t they / carried you everywhere, up to now?”
— Galway Kinnell
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This poem appeared in Mortal Acts, Mortal Words by Galway Kinnell, published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1980. Shared here with deep gratitude.
“Tears / irrigate my anguish until anguish opens like a seedpod, // and there is only fragrance.”
— Saddiq Dzukogi
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This poem appeared in Body, Summer 2023. Shared here with deep gratitude.
“Sleep through the alarm / of the world.”
— Andrea Gibson
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This poem appeared in You Better Be Lightning by Andrea Gibson, published by Button Poetry, 2021. Shared here with deep gratitude.
“I love you; four million in me / and fourteen more outside.”
— Farah Chamma
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This poem appeared in We Call to the Eye & the Night by Writers of Arab Heritage, edited by Hala Alyan and Zeina Hashem Beck, published by Persea Books, 2023. Shared here with deep gratitude.
“Every day God asks, Cruelty again?”
— Nora Hikari
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This poem appeared in Poem-a-Day by the Academy of American Poets, 2024. Shared here with deep gratitude.
“And nothing at all / about how much / I love her.”
— Char March
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This poem appeared in The Thousand Natural Shocks by Char March, published by Indigo Dreams Publishing, 2011. Shared here with deep gratitude.
“I keep waking up in different / beds and in this same / body.”
— Angie Sijun Lou
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This poem appeared in Muzzle Magazine Issue 22, 2018. Shared here with deep gratitude.
“some might say it’s a blessing to know your entrances / & exits.”
— Hanif Abdurraqib
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This poem appeared in A Fortune for Your Disaster by Hanif Abdurraqib, published by Tin House Books (@tin_house), 2019. Shared here with deep gratitude.
“So you might as well live / and you might as well love.”
— Pádraig Ó Tuama
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This poem appeared in Sorry For Your Troubles by Pádraig Ó Tuama, published by Canterbury Press Norwich, 2013. Shared here with deep gratitude.
