Blurry Finally in Too Soon Each of Us

Carl Phillips

Spring 2019

A water-meadow is not a flood-meadow.

A working meadow’s not a fallow field.

Carl Phillips’s new book, Pale Colors in a Tall Field, will be out from Farrar, Straus & Giroux in 2020. Sibling Rivalry Press will publish his chapbook, Star Map with Action Figures, this fall.

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Collateral Rabbits

Graham Barnhart

The spotting tower rises
like a sundial in a plain
of punctured buses
we pretend are houses.
In an hour or so, a gunship
will come on station
circling. The crews
rise skyward in a reek
of gun oil they no longer smell
on themselves.

The Lens of Porcelain

Rebecca Wolff

For example,
one of many lenses
one of many ways
to look.

Ms. Battles

Sidik Fofana

The first day of school they assigned me and Cassius with the new seventh-grade teacher, Mr. Broderick, for fifth period, and all I had to do was look him up and down once to tell he was gonna be a mess. White boy with no hair on his chin, smilin at his books.

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