On Watching a Video of Sea Creatures Swimming through Trash by Lizzy Fox
“I didn’t understand / delight // not shared. / Or pain. / Soon, the blister / melted back // into me.” — Emilia Phillips
A Visit by Derek Otsuji
“Wondering how they’d found me / at this earth address, I looked at them” — Derek Otsuji
My tax dollars support the genocide by Seema Reza
“My tax dollars support genocide / And my grandmother declines, open eyed in her hospital bed” — Seema Reza
Arrival by Yunkyo Moon-Kim
“As it was, I believed the myth. I believed I could / walk through any soft wind like a sieve.” — Yunkyo Moon-Kim
Fuck / Time by Innua Ellams
“The universe in fact is monstrously indifferent to the presence of man” — Inua Ellams
Ventography by Mistee St. Clair
"This attempt to boundary it into a claim. / To remake wind into a territory." — Mistee St. Clair
Dear by Ace Chu
“If, on cold nights, / before bed, / I pray for something as simple as the warmth of my hands—” — Ace Chu
I Have This Way of Being by Jamaal May
“This is little more than a way / to kneel and fill gloves with sweat,” — Jamaal May