Spring 2024 Online Folio – Michigan Quarterly Review

Spring 2024 Online Folio

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

from The Book of Kings

Published in Spring 2024 Online Folio The following is an excerpt from The Book of Kings, a novel by Mahtem Shiferraw MAKEDA AXUM, 1370 B.C. The soldiers showed up unannounced, at the break of the night. They lurked quietly, shadows only at first, then lumps and lumps of them – their armors shimmering in the

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Published in Spring 2024 Online Folio The following is an excerpt from The Book of Kings, a novel by Mahtem Shiferraw MAKEDA AXUM, 1370 B.C. The soldiers showed up unannounced, at the break of the night. They lurked quietly, shadows only at first, then lumps and lumps of them – their armors shimmering in the

Too Late to Die Young

Published in Spring 2024 Online Folio The most inconvenient thing a lover can do is die. Ndumiso looks at his husband Lifa sitting next to him in the doctor’s office; their hands are clasped and clammy, swinging between them. Dr. Dlamini promised to return shortly, but that was two hours ago. The doctor’s lengthened absence

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Published in Spring 2024 Online Folio The most inconvenient thing a lover can do is die. Ndumiso looks at his husband Lifa sitting next to him in the doctor’s office; their hands are clasped and clammy, swinging between them. Dr. Dlamini promised to return shortly, but that was two hours ago. The doctor’s lengthened absence

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

In Plain Sight

Published in Spring 2024 Online Folio It began as a simple ruse: the lie that Jean didn’t understand a word of Kirundi. He wanted to be alone with his marbles, and so had left the sparsely decorated hall, with the soup-and-beer-stained white sheets placed on the formica tables, and clusters of red balloons arranged along

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Published in Spring 2024 Online Folio It began as a simple ruse: the lie that Jean didn’t understand a word of Kirundi. He wanted to be alone with his marbles, and so had left the sparsely decorated hall, with the soup-and-beer-stained white sheets placed on the formica tables, and clusters of red balloons arranged along

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