When I Kneel, I Don’t Think of a God by Farnaz Fatemi
“You do not linger out loud. / You are not in my mouth.” — Farnaz Fatemi
Glamor on the West Streets / Silver Over Everything by Hanif Abdurraqib
“isn’t it funny, to vow that you will love someone until you are dead.” — Hanif Abdurraqib
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
In the Tradition of Women Who’ve Blessed Me to Transfer Their Virtues by Asa Drake
“One year / in the middle of my life // I asked how full do I want to be.” — Asa Drake
Morgan Moonscar by Tom Snarsky
“The window of time between now / and universal heat death is enough / for one real apology, so we’d better / make it a good one” — Tom Snarsky
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
My Son is Undone By My Hair by Alice White
“Watch him lift it like a spider leg / mistaken for a string. See / the realization of what it is / creep across his gaze” — Alice White
Pleasure by Rick Barot
“On fewer days I agree / with the poet’s dread of being / the wrong person in the right world” — Rick Barot
City Lake by Chelsea B. DesAutels
“What was I waiting for? Frogs to rain from the sky? / A great love?” — Chelsea B. DesAutels
Pledge of Allegiance by E.J. Koh
“When my mother tells me, under allegiance: // Be happy! When you smile happiness is chase you — / her language is a hand she lays on my head.” — E.J. Koh