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Excerpts From Skyside

Published in Issue 63.4: Fall 2024 You can purchase our Fall issue here. The return to the center sometimes takes detours, passing byretreating waters, heading towards large mammals, displacedseeds, a path of straw. So many days diverted for a shadow. I wait to recognize a reason, a meaning.At the boundary: mute hands. In the face: all […]

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Published in Issue 63.4: Fall 2024 You can purchase our Fall issue here. The return to the center sometimes takes detours, passing byretreating waters, heading towards large mammals, displacedseeds, a path of straw. So many days diverted for a shadow. I wait to recognize a reason, a meaning.At the boundary: mute hands. In the face: all

The Easy Part

Published in Issue 63.4: Fall 2024 Who wouldn’t want to marry a minor character? said Marcos. And he thought that someone should have written first about Raúl’s rust-colored eyes, or at least have had the urge. They were on the small terrace behind the restaurant, a cement square between three buildings where the coworkers who’d

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Published in Issue 63.4: Fall 2024 Who wouldn’t want to marry a minor character? said Marcos. And he thought that someone should have written first about Raúl’s rust-colored eyes, or at least have had the urge. They were on the small terrace behind the restaurant, a cement square between three buildings where the coworkers who’d

Mother of Stone

Published in Issue 63.3: Summer 2024 You can purchase our Summer issue here. We worshipped her, sitting like obedient dogs at the base of her dress madeof coquina. Our father stole bricks from a fort we visited on vacation. Shecould not bend down to help us, and it appeared as though she had no face,even though

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Published in Issue 63.3: Summer 2024 You can purchase our Summer issue here. We worshipped her, sitting like obedient dogs at the base of her dress madeof coquina. Our father stole bricks from a fort we visited on vacation. Shecould not bend down to help us, and it appeared as though she had no face,even though

So Like a Waking

Published in Issue 63.3: Summer 2024 Come, poor babe: I have heard, but not believed, the spirits o’ the dead May walk again: If such thing be, thy mother Appear’d to me last night, for ne’er was dream So like a waking. —The Winter’s Tale “I’ll have a club soda,” I told the waiter, working

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Published in Issue 63.3: Summer 2024 Come, poor babe: I have heard, but not believed, the spirits o’ the dead May walk again: If such thing be, thy mother Appear’d to me last night, for ne’er was dream So like a waking. —The Winter’s Tale “I’ll have a club soda,” I told the waiter, working

Archival

Published in Issue 63.3: Summer 2024 You can purchase our Summer issue here. Diana Al-Hadid, Henry Art Gallery, 2021I descend the gallery stairs to the history of womenwhere my legs are cut off at the knee. Carved with the knife of ecstasy. I lie down halvednext to the instrument of my thinking.Not the bodiless head but

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Published in Issue 63.3: Summer 2024 You can purchase our Summer issue here. Diana Al-Hadid, Henry Art Gallery, 2021I descend the gallery stairs to the history of womenwhere my legs are cut off at the knee. Carved with the knife of ecstasy. I lie down halvednext to the instrument of my thinking.Not the bodiless head but

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