Anthologies
Umbrella category for anthologies; individual issues separated by tags
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notes on anticipation
In this moment that has come to happen / in other moments, the notes / of birds nestled in my asking.
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Two Poems
The new year begins in winter white embroidery— / trumpeter swans and needle-slim herons piercing / drainage ditches.
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The Year of Getting Better
“It’s the year of getting better,” her mother said as she walked into the room. It was Thora’s second hospital stay of the year.
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Memory, a Lacuna
My mother and grandmother were born in ‘the land of the lake,’ or La Comarca de la Laguna, a cradle of fertile land between the Sierra Madre mountain ranges in the northern Mexican desert
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Every Morning I Take a Bus Through the West Bank (II)
As I look out upon a landscape now heavily shaped by American colonialism, I know another world is possible.
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Math Problem with a River
A farmer with a wolf, a goat and a cabbage must cross a river by boat.
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Tributary
The year I meet granpa my hands mimic clouds. / Charybdis turning turpid pools / beneath his globes— vision I have awaited.
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For the Gentleness of Our Leaving
I started asking rivers to feed me as a child—literally, with flesh from fish, then figuratively, with flashes of comfort.
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SAMBATYON
There is a river, lost or hidden, that is impossible to pass six days each week.
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Electrician’s Litany
The Opera House power vault / blows and knocks out the local grid / on our first day of work together.
