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Judith and Her Maidservant
by Virginia Laurie
Judith and Her Maidservant I’m scared that my hair is falling out because I’m a gossip; scared hissing follicles loose with loose cruel lips; I believe in punishment as much as forgiveness; I believe bound fingers form blades; Artemisia paints Lucretia with the dagger pointed up and away; I see myself gripping liquored stringy hair; […]
Three Poems by Gerardo Arístides Rivodó
translated from the Spanish by David M. Brunson
me acostumbraré al presagio
de una casa vacía
al vuelo que dibujas
sobre cielos penitentes
a la rotura de un pájaro
Two Poems
by Leanne Ellul, translated from the Maltese by Albert Gatt
“Clam shells, your hands, / your hull’s flare in the palm hold. / Enshrouding bone on bone./ Curved like a whale. / Washed up.”
