Tomorrow is a Place by Sanna Wani
“She laughs and it’s an extension of her body. She laughs and it moves the whole room.” — Sanna Wani
No Rush by Todd Dillard
“It’s quiet now, / the storm splits open like sacramental bread, / and I love you I love you. Can you hear me?” — Todd Dillard
In a Kingdom of Little Gusts and I Want Out by Christopher Citro
“I crush the spider and say to you, It must be / autumn because now I kill one or two things / every day.” — Christopher Citro
Awake by Najwan Darwish
"Awake in hymns and the mailmen’s passion / Awake in a house that will be destroyed / in a grave that machines will dig up" – Najwan Darwish
[Remarkable the litter of birds] by Emily Skaja
“Everyone if we’re going to talk about love please we have to talk about violence” — Emily Skaja
The house as casualty by Mahmoud Darwish
“The house as casualty is also mass murder” — Mahmoud Darwish
Starlight, 1962 by Victoria Chang
“Suppose the stars are just our grief reflected back to us, proof that grief sometimes forgets its source, that it can find dead things no matter how distant.” — Victoria Chang
the ghosts of the dead sea rewrite the history of drowning by George Abraham
“[ say Gaza ] sink [ i failed ] sin [ say ocean ] sin [ i could not ]” — George Abraham
The Dog by Gabrielle Bates
“There was no sense in me / that he was in some sort of aftermath.” — Gabrielle Bates