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Reading Karen Barad on a Saturday Afternoon

Kazim Ali
    The Kazim then might be stealing from the Kasim now, so often do I write not knowing what a line even means and only many years later having lived do I half-know
from the journal Seneca Review

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M. W. Jaeggle on "Wrack Line"
Photo: M. W. Jaeggle
Kimberly L. Becker
We         will         always      be         here
Derrick Austin
If elegance be "concentrated sensibility for pleasure despite terror," you wrote in the black notebook with gold cranes your mother gave you. You gave him a vase of star jasmine.
M. W. Jaeggle
He wants to have a name ready for the music that will appear when bottle glass, once shard but now a rounded green, is juggled between their clicking chopstick beaks.
CAConrad
                                            I am a helio                                          whore hunting                                          for the deeper                                           penetration of light
Li Yu (translated from the Chinese by Arthur Sze)
it is the sorrow of parting, another strange flavor in the heart.

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