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Issue 19:2 OPEN THEME Is Here!

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This issue features new poems by Lambda Literary fellow Nora Hikari, Terry Watada, Evan J, and more. Plus, an excerpt from George Elliott Clarke’s War Canticles, as well as

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Matthias Mann | TO SLEEP

Write me to sleep,
Gently—lying
Beneath the beams, listless
As I am.

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Nick Visconti | YOU, FLOWER

Blue bells, blue bonnets, blue
pool above it all; finished rain
settles dense vapour in violet
hyacinth combs, dousing air

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James McKee | AUTUMN EXIT

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Even here, along
an avenue as dementedly luxe as Fifth,
the sheer aplomb
of late-November ruthlessness
gets noticed.

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Ken Norris | MOMENT

A pair of zebra doves
pay a visit, pecking about the grass.
I’m in the close shade
of an old twisty pink trumpet tree.

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Sneha Subramanian Kanta | [PURGATORY IN PARIS]

(largesse of autumn)
how shadowy the trees
to replace the taciturn
with another quietude

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Nora Hikari | ODE TO THE SWORD LOGIC

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Once I could have loved.
But love was cleaved damp
from my body. Carved soft
and wet from the rest
of my hard existence,
cast aside, with everything
that could be renamed
“submission.”

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Shane Neilson | SACRED TECHNICIAN

The little body, washed;
cleaned; swaddled;
transferred
from broken hand
to broken hand
to crib—

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John Kinsella | RADIESTHESIA

Recounting things overheard
in the unfamiliar places of childhood,
I never heard mentioned the radiation
of granites.

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