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True Love by Richard Siken
Equally afraid of being alone or being touched, my fears cancelled each other out.
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Karan Kapoor
4
it is at nights by Myriam Klatt
not one of us suffered more than our fair share but what is fair if your home has betrayed you
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Svetlana Litvinchuk
God Wills It by Gabriela Mistral
Barren of your child, and empty I rock my desolate knees.
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Karan Kapoor
2
Spring by Ishion Hutchinson
These creosote tears you must’ve seen on a Kraków statue streaked with rain.
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Svetlana Litvinchuk
3
My Mother's Ghost Scrubs the Floors at 2 a.m. by Robert Okaji
What do you say to one who never replies?
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Svetlana Litvinchuk
 and 
Robert Okaji
2
Make oatmeal cookies, not war by Bob Hicok
My heart is not a tuba, more of a piccolo
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Karan Kapoor
18
To Neighbors (This Morning My Flesh Is a Half-Mast Flag) by Marko Pogačar
the shoes left by the door prove the living exist
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Karan Kapoor
10
Four Seasons, Chicago by Kandala Singh
In my country, women sew silences in colorful cloth.
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Karan Kapoor
4
Uncle Sugar by Narisma
last week at the supermarket / I was greeted by a man / in our native tongue / he said he’s been missing me / even if we’ve never met
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Svetlana Litvinchuk
2
A Noiseless Patient Spider by Walt Whitman
And you O my soul where you stand, Surrounded, detached, in measureless oceans of space
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Karan Kapoor
7
Ghazal for Longing by Sarah Mills
I wrote for weeks, then titled my essay Longing.
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Svetlana Litvinchuk
4
In a Time of Peace by Ilya Kaminsky
We see in his open mouth the nakedness of a whole nation.
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Svetlana Litvinchuk
10
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