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In / Of

By MIHIR BELLAMKONDA | 25 SEP 2023

By Viviane Sassen — Photo by Samuel Zeller

Green innervates the skin;
I eat the fish
and the fish eye.

I ease thirty-two muscles
into sweetwater.

Thus pleasure:
one cool hand,
body, world.

Mihir Bellamkonda is a poet based in DC, currently working on their debut collection. They enjoy rescuing worms from the sidewalk after storms. Their work is forthcoming in The West Trade Review, among other journals. They can be found on socials @MihirWords.

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imagine your hands as flowers

By MARYAM IVETTE PARHIZKAR

I try

kiss you from here––

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When the World Beckons

By SORAMIMI HANAREJIMA

Now, the aubergine sky outside her window invites her to become a breeze.

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DAYBREAK

By MARK KYUNGSOO BIAS

Holding each name close as bone.