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Narrow Fever

Vigilant to tool and betI make rounded in a shapely alphabet,the woodwork.Gouge me a lineout of line: so…

Kin

family legacies of unbroken painand persistent prayermade into a single spine we carry together makes us kin high-tech…

Grieving for Gaza

Going and grieving.More going, less grieving.More doing, always doing.Grieving is a privilege—a tall, blond, machine-gun-totingTikToker privilege.Grieving is a…

Dismembered

to remember means to put back togetherstop trying to fit these cindered arms inside your pink backpack just…

Outside

I carried the whimper of a captive natureinto the Lubavitch school,my binder, lessonsuninsured by divinity.I passed an ima…

The Steward

When my father’s brother diedthe priest told him If you never want to hurt this much again, never…