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  • A MORAL VICTORY IS STILL A DEFEAT

    It was late in the year and late in the day,

  • The Easy Way to Stop Drinking

    We are as flies in a pitcher plant,

  • Bending Truth to Advantage

    From Robert Lowell’s poem “Those Before Us,” these final lines: “Pardon them for existing.

  • A History of Mirrors

    We’ve accidentally collided with something real tonight

  • Excerpt from poem by Im Yunjidang translated from Hanja (via modern Korean) by Suphil Lee Park

    This shapeless blade

  • That’s How We Met translated by Chenxin Jiang

    If only I didn’t have to grow up

  • Honey

    Strange music of our Emily —

  • Small Hut

    I know you only in echo,

  • Two poems by Tomasz Różycki translated from Polish by Mira Rosenthal

    Hello? If you can hear me, give a sign, a call,

  • mother of stains

    a mother made of three buttons from three different sweaters

  • While

    While we were kissing that year, the icebergs were sleeping,

  • Circus

    How the squirrel, skittish, leaps, lobbing its orange