• Collateral Rabbits

    Graham Barnhart

    Summer 2019

    Another soft skull thumps
    against the Humvee bumper.
    built for ramming and momentum.
    We wouldn’t notice
    if there weren’t the sound.
    Somewhere in New Mexico
    we're the loudest things.
    No one needs to say nice or fuck yeah
    anymore. They know
    I still want to swerve.
    The instinct
    toward gentleness,
    like the jackrabbits’
    tendency to stiffen
    in the magnitude
    of headlights, looks
    like fear, so I curb it.

    Graham Barnhart is the author of  The War Makes Everyone Lonely, forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press, and a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. 

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    Ange Mlinko

    Here where the various Venuses gather
    —you know the types: one kind
    posing with a dolphin or a scallop shell,
    another gyring to look at her behind,
    another a more modest bather,
    crossing her arms—a church bell coincides with the approach of sirens,
    pitting emergency against eternity;

    Palinode

    Michael Prior


        I have spent hours checking the sun-
    stunted shiso for iridescent beetles,
        bodies tufted with fine hairs
    like the down on a dandelion seed,
        spent years wondering what it meant
    to be her or her parents, uprooted,

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    Stephanie McCarter

    A woman’s body is largely a cultural invention, given expression through words that mandate what that body must signify, even what parts it must possess. The language we use chisels and molds the female form, like sculpture.

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