Poetry

    Changing Woman Gives Birth to Coyote

    by Betsy James
    Your two-penny face,
    bright as your father’s,
    wrinkled tight.

      जंगली गुलाब/Jangli Gulaab (Briar Rose)

      by Shveta Thakrar
      So red this rose
      Brambles burst from my mouth
      (Stammers strangled into sterile silence)

        Beneath Red Regolith

        by WC Roberts
        Striding tall on spider legs it scans the regolith
        the ping of refined metal set off
        the protocols
        antenna disk cocked upward

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