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Letters to S. From Poet-Build Beta-3

A.E. Ash

22 Dec 2014

I promise I've checked the math.

Poetry

Warriors

Thato Angela Chuma

15 Dec 2014

who have built homes / in broken wombs

Poetry

Raw Honey

Sara Norja

8 Dec 2014

Now, you say, he becomes a bear.

Poetry

Rust

Kythryne Aisling

1 Dec 2014

your tears will etch lines of rust around your eyes— / do not polish them away

Poetry

You Are Here

Bogi Takács

24 Nov 2014

With each moment, the baseline of your memories shifts

Poetry

The Mermaid of Lincoln Park Lagoon

Valya Dudycz Lupescu

17 Nov 2014

Mine is not a beautiful hunger.

Poetry

The rivers, the birchgroves, all the receding earth

R.B. Lemberg

10 Nov 2014

my hare-heavy boat tilting into summer / all the way to the dry shore and the joyful leap

Poetry

Salamander Song

Emily Jiang
R.B. Lemberg

10 Nov 2014

my body burnished scales, a shawl of sparks over a story I have never told.

Poetry

Brass

Erik Amundsen

3 Nov 2014

We should find a heaven / and if it isn't, a city of brass

Poetry

Incendiaries

Jane Crowley

27 Oct 2014

the window closed, the sheets too close

Poetry

Cloud Wall

Arkady Martine

20 Oct 2014

It was the new year / and you were hardly human yourself

Poetry

Even Robots Learn

Penny Stirling

13 Oct 2014

No, not aromatic. No, just single, not single-cell.

Poetry

Plato's Orpheus

Catherine Butler

6 Oct 2014

Thus I saw you tread before, more shade than man

Poetry

Gorgon Girls

Saira Ali

22 Sep 2014

There is nothing more monstrous in our gaze than a mirror.

Poetry

The Daemon Lover

Pamela Manasco

15 Sep 2014

How those bows tackled under like ice.

Poetry

Sea-Sweet

Yoon Ha Lee

8 Sep 2014

I bit you down / to bones

Poetry

Used

Eric Otto

1 Sep 2014

metal body a metal body

Poetry

A Pantheon of Madnesses

Cory O'Brien

25 Aug 2014

There are no leaves. There are only flies. And they notice you, noticing them.

Poetry

A Universe Collided

Charles Bane, Jr.

18 Aug 2014

such play as / spawn or beer on working / days, or mouth to mouth

Poetry

Helmets of the Future

Jessy Randall

11 Aug 2014

indoor helmet / outdoor helmet

Poetry

Note to the Caretaker

Lisa Bellamy

4 Aug 2014

in our absence, please negotiate a final settlement with the mole

Poetry

VIMVIMRECOIL

Heather Knox

28 Jul 2014

It's said she gave birth to the pigs but she couldn't because her husband didn't die until she became a witch until the sea

Poetry

Grandmother

Leslianne Wilder

21 Jul 2014

We hadn't disliked the grandmother we'd had / But she was a wolf now

Poetry

Metamorphosis

Juan Martínez

14 Jul 2014

Then the hallway / turned into / a car

Poetry

A Self-Contained Riot of Lights

Bogi Takács

7 Jul 2014

I reach into my nose and pull out a rainbow tapeworm / as a token of goodbye

Poetry

La Muerte

Randi Anderson

30 Jun 2014

The mountain watches me, / the mountain trembles up and down

Poetry

Two Children

Tendai Rinos Mwanaka

23 Jun 2014

It is the / shadow I have always thought is in the rooms

Poetry

Hierarch

Laura W. Allen

16 Jun 2014

that old disdain, like a mourning suit or a coronet

Poetry

In Cellars, Monsters

Zella Christensen

9 Jun 2014

so many hearts I can't tell which are yours

Poetry

Straw-Fitted Elephants

Salik Shah

2 Jun 2014

Twenty-five centuries of space / and time trapped inside a library

Poetry

We Saw No Signs of Life

Ting Gou

26 May 2014

Purest thermodynamics, / they fall when cold, rise when warm, / buoyant as algae.

Poetry

Red

Charis M. Ellison

19 May 2014

Didn't our mother tell us not to talk to strangers? / but we enter anyway / into the smell of iron.

Poetry

The Liar's Charm

Gillian Daniels

12 May 2014

Start small. / Tell him he is beautiful. / Tell her she is brave.

Poetry

Spent

Ruth Jenkins

5 May 2014

There'll be the man at the gate. / Stand back, he'll say. / There's nothing to see.

Poetry

Transformations

Kate Conover

28 Apr 2014

Winedark—winedrunk—wineblacked-out

Poetry

The God of Lost Things

Neile Graham

21 Apr 2014

But vain hours later I'm inventing prayers of smoke and mirrors

Poetry

Her Sun-patterned Eye

Alex Dally MacFarlane

14 Apr 2014

no foundation texts inscribed on her tall body / only her collar-bones in Shahr-e Sukhteh's dry ground

Poetry

1991, What I Wanted

Boudreau Freret

7 Apr 2014

to reassemble / the pieces

Poetry

The Ghosts of Occupation

Wendy A. Howe

31 Mar 2014

I dream of women who vow / to keep their fire baskets full

Poetry

Litany of the Family Bean

Gemma Files

24 Mar 2014

God's gift. Quotidian bounty / of salt-cold sand and tide

Poetry

The Peal Divers

Francesca Forrest

17 Mar 2014

They come for the glossolalia / Of the tongueless bells

Poetry

True History

Liz Bourke

10 Mar 2014

You say all these lies are mine?

Poetry

Fat Women

Sandi Leibowitz

3 Mar 2014

They have no hands. / They do no work

Poetry

Rebel

Danielle Higgins

24 Feb 2014

I hold a star in my eye and a pistol in my hand.

Poetry

Ex Machina

Natalia Theodoridou

24 Feb 2014

Tonight, we are [Ajax]. We die of pride by the sea.

Poetry

On an Iranian Goblet, 5,000 Years Old

Alicia Cole

24 Feb 2014

the first green of raw / almonds

Poetry

Disturbance

Jude Alford

24 Feb 2014

In dust-masks and coveralls, rustling, crouched / in your white forensic tent

Poetry

Ekphrastic 22/The Drowning Girl

Jenn Grunigen

24 Feb 2014

I found seashells in my cereal this morning

Poetry

The Paper Boy

Mike Allen

24 Feb 2014

dead teen folded on the tiny back seat

Poetry

Food Diary of Gark the Troll

Jessy Randall

24 Feb 2014

breakfast: 70 boxes granola (no raisins)

Poetry

Una Canción de Keys

Lisa M. Bradley

24 Feb 2014

"Cactus?" Abby shrieks. / "This isn't going to be like that weird salad, is it?"

Poetry

Rehearsal for When He Wakes

Anne Carly Abad

24 Feb 2014

They say you will be different, / having gone through death / before preservation

Poetry

The Rotten Leaf Cantata

R.B. Lemberg

24 Feb 2014

I have never owned a crowbar.

Poetry

From the Record

Susan Carlson

17 Feb 2014

We are proud of the / real we have achieved.

Poetry

A Spell for Rebuilding Your Lover Out of Snow

Peter Chiykowski

10 Feb 2014

I thought, There’s a trick to this, / finding your lover / in the record of his step

Poetry

After the Changeling Incantation

John Philip Johnson

3 Feb 2014

some reason to be a goose / other than just gooseness

Poetry

Roman Shade

April Grant

27 Jan 2014

There is no sound. It's drawing toward us in a wave; / blackness is putting out the stars of fire.

Poetry

Architect

Sharon Kretz

20 Jan 2014

My eyes grow tired of this shore. The air— / too much broom, apple, and dust.

Poetry

Dermatoglyphics

Stacie Taylor

13 Jan 2014

Later, syntax clogged and clotted, / wrecked my clean lines, pulsed / on the page distinct as inkblots.

Poetry

The Restoration of Youth

Mari Ness

6 Jan 2014

He gives me sweets, / the young girl said, / her eyes watching the ground.