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TWO POEMS by Kyle Dargan
BEAUTY Miss Iraq, the first crowned in forty years of foreign meddling, means it when she wishes for world peace— her cousins’ deaths both tallied by sectarian violence in her war-quilted, war-torn nation. She is aware the pageantry— pinup smiles and stiff, cupped hands (their rotational gesture) —will not beckon peace. Salvation may have…
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CASTRATO by Annie Kim
I want to be a boy, you tell the man who analyzes you. Free of desire. He nods, light flashing off his thin gold spectacles. No one called the singing boys castrati to their face. So evirato, meaning one unmanned, musico: one making music. Boys aren’t free of desire, of course— Though not by ordinary…
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VIOLINS: VIOLENCE by Annie Kim
Vitula. Viol. Violino. Violare. Violentus. Violentia. Origin and History of Violence, reads the header. You’ve visited this page 3 times.* * * Last night you dreamed again about your father— You had him by the wrists: above your head, the way you’d catch a snake, one hand beneath his flickering tongue, fighting hard to not…
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