Winter 2025 – Michigan Quarterly Review

Winter 2025

The Florist

Published in Issue 64.1: Winter 2025 You can purchase our Winter issue here So many people are inside a rose’s becoming.I speak to those who grow and send it.In the shop, shades of psychotropic green repeat themselvesand I find colorful faces everywhere. A mouthwith the voice of sky asks, Where is your mind right now?I reply, […]

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Published in Issue 64.1: Winter 2025 You can purchase our Winter issue here So many people are inside a rose’s becoming.I speak to those who grow and send it.In the shop, shades of psychotropic green repeat themselvesand I find colorful faces everywhere. A mouthwith the voice of sky asks, Where is your mind right now?I reply,

Ditch and Drain

Published in Issue 64.1: Winter 2025 You can purchase our Winter issue here The melting glaciers begat a flood: a colossal lake high in the mountains, held back only by ice. When it gave way, the lake roared down a river valley, eating resistance and carrying rocks the size of young mammoths. The water crashed through

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Published in Issue 64.1: Winter 2025 You can purchase our Winter issue here The melting glaciers begat a flood: a colossal lake high in the mountains, held back only by ice. When it gave way, the lake roared down a river valley, eating resistance and carrying rocks the size of young mammoths. The water crashed through

The Ant and the Grasshopper

Published in Issue 64.1: Winter 2025 You can purchase our Winter issue here The evening Amma left us began like all the other evenings of my childhood. I sat at the old dining table with its powder-blue Formica top peeling at the edges, pretending to work on my long division exercises while watching Amma chop snake

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Published in Issue 64.1: Winter 2025 You can purchase our Winter issue here The evening Amma left us began like all the other evenings of my childhood. I sat at the old dining table with its powder-blue Formica top peeling at the edges, pretending to work on my long division exercises while watching Amma chop snake

On Hunger

Published in Issue 64.1: Winter 2025 You can purchase our Winter issue here i make music to live longeri live life to curl tonguestongues with language are a GodGod is a face i can only see with a penthe pen is an echo of the worldthe world is a God we cannot seei do not see

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Published in Issue 64.1: Winter 2025 You can purchase our Winter issue here i make music to live longeri live life to curl tonguestongues with language are a GodGod is a face i can only see with a penthe pen is an echo of the worldthe world is a God we cannot seei do not see

My Left Hand, Unholy

Published in Issue 64.1: Winter 2025 You can purchase our Winter issue here Why We Chose It: Michigan Quarterly Review Assistant Editor Hank Hietala on why he recommended “My Left Hand, Unholy” by Sanjana Thakur. When I first read “My Left Hand, Unholy,” I was struck by how the text moves through time. From the second paragraph on, Sanjana

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Published in Issue 64.1: Winter 2025 You can purchase our Winter issue here Why We Chose It: Michigan Quarterly Review Assistant Editor Hank Hietala on why he recommended “My Left Hand, Unholy” by Sanjana Thakur. When I first read “My Left Hand, Unholy,” I was struck by how the text moves through time. From the second paragraph on, Sanjana

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