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JUNO, FAR FROM DORCHESTER, SOUTH CAROLINA, 1733

Published in Issue 62.4: Fall 2023 Why We Chose It: Michigan Quarterly Review reader Michael O’Ryan on why he recommended “JUNO, FAR FROM DORCHESTER, SOUTH CAROLINA, 1733” by Melissa Range for the Fall 2023 issue. You can purchase the issue here. Melissa Range’s “JUNO, FAR FROM DORCHESTER, SOUTH CAROLINA, 1733”, immediately captivated me for its effective utilization of a […]

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Published in Issue 62.4: Fall 2023 Why We Chose It: Michigan Quarterly Review reader Michael O’Ryan on why he recommended “JUNO, FAR FROM DORCHESTER, SOUTH CAROLINA, 1733” by Melissa Range for the Fall 2023 issue. You can purchase the issue here. Melissa Range’s “JUNO, FAR FROM DORCHESTER, SOUTH CAROLINA, 1733”, immediately captivated me for its effective utilization of a

Diseases of American Slavery (the EARTH)

Published in Issue 62.4: Fall 2023 The earth will try to reclaim you. It will begin with moss — its fuzzy teeth that soften the side of stone as if making a meal of hard bread. Green unfurled on your skin like a rash of tobacco covers a field. —A softly splotched compass slying across

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Published in Issue 62.4: Fall 2023 The earth will try to reclaim you. It will begin with moss — its fuzzy teeth that soften the side of stone as if making a meal of hard bread. Green unfurled on your skin like a rash of tobacco covers a field. —A softly splotched compass slying across

THE KOREAN SPA AFTER TOP SURGERY

Published in Issue 62.4: Fall 2023 There is only one place on earth  where a frieze of mermaids stand silently  as women in black bras and underwear scrub  the body in front of them. This poem  will not change the uniform they must wear  or the male and female only lockers or the x  on

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Published in Issue 62.4: Fall 2023 There is only one place on earth  where a frieze of mermaids stand silently  as women in black bras and underwear scrub  the body in front of them. This poem  will not change the uniform they must wear  or the male and female only lockers or the x  on

SLOW TIME SIMMER; THIS ELEMENTAL BLADE—

SLOW TIME SIMMER Bumbling at thresholds like any, “to god,” I might drop in pidgin tongue on toe. Dearest Adalao, restlessness remains the way I meditate: hopscotch & dream-smoke, trouble-cause & flam. I got those Hi-fi speakers, baby! For listen—that’s what my body is. Cold, gangly & fidget as this city gets when hurt, would

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SLOW TIME SIMMER Bumbling at thresholds like any, “to god,” I might drop in pidgin tongue on toe. Dearest Adalao, restlessness remains the way I meditate: hopscotch & dream-smoke, trouble-cause & flam. I got those Hi-fi speakers, baby! For listen—that’s what my body is. Cold, gangly & fidget as this city gets when hurt, would

again this week, they killed another child who looked like my brother

after John Murillo they tell me to set up an auto-reply, that i have a computer to respond to messages of children’s chalky exhaustion, after another one of our bodies lies on pavement. cold and not so sudden. here i am, thinking of this and that. they tell me, i tell me, i should be

again this week, they killed another child who looked like my brother Read More »

after John Murillo they tell me to set up an auto-reply, that i have a computer to respond to messages of children’s chalky exhaustion, after another one of our bodies lies on pavement. cold and not so sudden. here i am, thinking of this and that. they tell me, i tell me, i should be

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