The instances of botched drownings have been increasing. People jumping from city piers, coastal cliffs, driving miles to walk into the sea. Too many coincidences are called something else. Rupture. A stray radio signal brings…
Browsing Category Poetry
I Google Cuba like a stranger
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To J., Who Picked Us Up Hitchhiking
Where we stood scared across the highwayfrom the drawn-down lake, my friendhad seen ghosts stepping out of firs. “Bad placeto camp,” you’d said. Told us it was my fly rodthat made you pull over. “Those…
Three Poems by Safa Hijazi
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Fast Food Haikus
“Don’t get above your raising.”— Karen Salyer McElmurray Water falls intothe deep fryer, tidalingtowards my shaking hands. Singed skin still serving,brown, sprawling splatters sink ineveryone has them. From drive-thru speakers,music caught inside the car,today, Chopin…