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Poetry

Mar/Apr 2022

strategy

By Xiao Yue Shan

ten past midnight they pour out sparkling. sequins split from their cloth and spilling tambourine on the curb. whole bangkok black buttered liqueur rushed sheening into throats. she leaves a […]

Poetry

Mar/Apr 2022

the right to work

By Xiao Yue Shan

passage is a sudden detail in the long musical night wherein a hand that comes in from the darkness (is it darkness’s hand?) grants—in three serrated stamps and the nod […]

Poetry

Mar/Apr 2022

kitchen

By Xiao Yue Shan

dressed pearls of garlic in petaline whisper, sunlight in triangles by the cutting board as if set to be thinly portioned and split at the table. snapper drowsy in its […]