"I noticed that so many things felt very opposite, and I was interested in the experience of inhabiting this position, knowing how I felt when I was on the other side."
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Resume of an Invisible Laborer
Peeled plums and removed crusts to avert meltdown
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This Likert Life
How happy are you, after all—one to five—with this Likert life?
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The Cirrus Circus
Our collective moisture and heat condensating in the sky, the first cycle of a dynamic and unpredictable climate in this new home: the end of her quest.
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Q&A with Sarah Ghazal Ali, author of Theophanies
The poems are built on a foundation of refusal — to choose between two truths
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My Niece Mispronounces My Name
maybe nicknames are how we trick the wind
into sneaking travelers between realms
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“Sestina as Foreplay” and “Wedding Season”
See, that type of burning
can cross countries. I think we may have had that.
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Five Poems
i think the issue is everyone
has been so beautiful in
every poem, everyone // except me.