MICRO

first Came the fruit, then Came the fruit, first

By NOOR IBN NAJAM | 23 SEP 2020

By Viviane Sassen — Photo by Macro Mama from StockSnap

noor is a poet who teases, challenges, breaks, and creates language. she's a Callaloo and Watering Hole fellow and a recent resident of the Vermont Studio Center. her poems have been published and anthologized with DIAGRAM, ANMLY, The Academy of American Poets, the Rumpus, Bettering American Poetry, and others. her chapbook, PRAISE TO LESSER GODS OF LOVE, was published by Glass Poetry Press in 2019.

MICRO

Poplar Trees

By AUDI BARNES

watch branches swing in a sudden gust and watch the
leaves rip free, hang on air itself: an estranged fruit.

POETRY

look how far we come/

By QUENTON BAKER

black enough to decrypt the wave at its crest

POETRY

A FRUIT WE NEVER TASTED

By XANDRIA PHILLIPS

we worked we wormed
on the roots / on the bodies
of fruit we never tasted /