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It’s Important I Remember That the Enemy Is Always Within—

Published in Issue 63.3: Summer 2024 it had never been more evident to me than that night.In the evening, I slid over to the main library to visit her while I knew she was on the clock for work study. Exams were coming up anyway, so I thought: why learna lesson alone when you can […]

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Published in Issue 63.3: Summer 2024 it had never been more evident to me than that night.In the evening, I slid over to the main library to visit her while I knew she was on the clock for work study. Exams were coming up anyway, so I thought: why learna lesson alone when you can

For Girls Who Talk Too Much at Lunch

Published in Issue 63.3: Summer 2024 You can purchase our Summer issue here. Daughter of two accountants, I tallymy contributions with standardized tests, testing my ABC English to bestthe born-here kids. Race through Chinatown alley, up Washington and Grant and more Calistreets named for dead presidents who addressedimmigration like it’s a problem of pestcontrol—De, are you

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Published in Issue 63.3: Summer 2024 You can purchase our Summer issue here. Daughter of two accountants, I tallymy contributions with standardized tests, testing my ABC English to bestthe born-here kids. Race through Chinatown alley, up Washington and Grant and more Calistreets named for dead presidents who addressedimmigration like it’s a problem of pestcontrol—De, are you

13 Ways of Nepantla

Published in Issue 63.3: Summer 2024 Fernando Trujillo is the 2024 winner of the Laurence Goldstein Prize in Poetry for the poem “13 Ways of Nepantla,” which is published in the Summer 2024 issue of MQR. The award was established in 2002 by a generous gift from the Office of the President of the University

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Published in Issue 63.3: Summer 2024 Fernando Trujillo is the 2024 winner of the Laurence Goldstein Prize in Poetry for the poem “13 Ways of Nepantla,” which is published in the Summer 2024 issue of MQR. The award was established in 2002 by a generous gift from the Office of the President of the University

Notes on Movement

Published in Spring 2024 Online Folio once, i knelt before a man and asked to be loved. knelt so long i didn’t know how best to distinguish the floor from my knees—the way i savor exile yet cannot tell of freedom. —— an uncle, a refugee in the ivory coast, could not tell of what

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Published in Spring 2024 Online Folio once, i knelt before a man and asked to be loved. knelt so long i didn’t know how best to distinguish the floor from my knees—the way i savor exile yet cannot tell of freedom. —— an uncle, a refugee in the ivory coast, could not tell of what

In the Northern Hemisphere

Published in Spring 2024 Online Folio Birdsong never left you to anthrophonic crackling ice, no. Cattle egrets never pitched water, smacking your face, across the bed after you returned home fresh from sleeping with two white boys. Birds come back each spring with no apologies, like dogs will be dogs. You hear their voices rising

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Published in Spring 2024 Online Folio Birdsong never left you to anthrophonic crackling ice, no. Cattle egrets never pitched water, smacking your face, across the bed after you returned home fresh from sleeping with two white boys. Birds come back each spring with no apologies, like dogs will be dogs. You hear their voices rising

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