No. 30 • Matt Miller
Time was swallowing the children. / Time was an instant, a moment. / Time had all the cards.No. 30 • Joan Perucho
It actually wasn’t that hard to invoke spirits around a table. They were everywhere.No. 30 • Dagoberto Gilb
His brother was both more native and worldly, one whose life was as mysterious to him as it was obvious—as bright as yellow red and blue oil paint.No. 30 • Sara Majka
I don’t blame you in a way. In a way? In all ways, in all ways I don’t blame you.No. 30 • Idra Novey
We leaned into the weedfire / with all the wavering love we could endure receiving / from each other.No. 30 • Joanna Klink
It is not / only land that seems to lean up / toward me, but last night’s thick rains / soaked below it and, outside this city, / the clay beneath fields.No. 30 • Atsuro Riley
That sure as fangs a threat-pestered sheeny cottonmouth gon’ gape.No. 30 • Matthew Zapruder
I remember her / so long ago / appearing on certain / Friday nights / as I religiously wasted / my youth watching / others embark / the boat of loveNo. 30 • Joshua Furst
I had come here for a reason, though I no longer remembered what this reason was.No. 30 • Maria Thomas
Mona looked left, out of the little window, to find the sun shining and plump rain falling in a manner that seemed cinematic and hopeful.No. 30 • Victoria Chang
The curtain stays closed / until someone falls in love.No. 30 • Sylvia Legris
The beach is a game board of umbrella & umbrella, torso & orifice, a vortex / of engorgement & vomit & vice versa & back.No. 30 • Rebecca Wolff
a week is measured in days and there are seven / just like the fingers on my hands without those ones I / forget, chopped off, bitten off, fell off from scurvy and flesh- / eating: intentionally brutal.No. 30 • Brian Blanchfield
How much was a cubit?/ What counts / as a murmur? A heel to knee, or knee to hip / distance; a walking complaint / not yet consensus.No. 30 • Gillian Conoley
Few ever really got to live there. / It was smaller than anyone ever expected. / Its lights were dimmed, though guards remainedNo. 30 • Mi Jin Kim
Man Suk was a difficult person to be friends with. You couldn’t ask him for anything.No. 30 • Uche Okonkwo
Harvesting the souls of men was full-time work—one could not serve God and mammon, didn’t she know?No. 30 • Corita Kent
She is not frivolous, except to those who see life as a problem.No. 30 • Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi
I’ll bet Napoleon never tasted anything this good. Not even on his wedding day.No. 30 • John Francis Istel
He winks and snaps off a shot with his index finger, peering into my eyes with a weird pity.No. 30 • Miguel Coronado
We can see a distance form within the word permission itself, an ocean or a sky; and to what end does the poet serve as an ambassador, crossing this space?No. 30 • Huan He
The rice fields shine like rows of tinsel / the sun a neighborhood beggar in a lazy nap. / A boy, who will become the father, / drops a candy wrapper.No. 30 • Yasmine Ameli
I memorize her face for our resemblance: an arched brow, a dark ring around the pupil.No. 30 • Ann-Marie Blanchard
I’m remnants. Remains of a teen, troubled, remains of a child, sling necked but alive.No. 30 • Maja Lukic
I confuse love with nostalgia. / I sit at a museum and watch/a slideshow of my vanished state.No. 30 • Rosemarie Ho
There are five petals to a cherry blossom, Nina chanted to herself. There is a kindness to cerulean.No. 30 • Crawford Hunt
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