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Miracle Ice Cream

Miracle's truck comes down the little avenue,
Scott Joplin ragtime strewn behind it like pearls,
and, yes, you can feel happy
with one piece of your heart.

Take what's still given: in a room's rich shadow
a woman's breasts swinging lightly as she bends.
Early now the pearl of dusk dissolves.
Late, you sit weighing the evening news,
fast-food miracles, ghostly revolutions,
the rest of your heart.
Adrienne Rich
1995

Blue Girls

 
John Crowe Ransom

Aurelius & Furius, true comrades (11)

Aurelius & Furius, true comrades, 
whether Catullus penetrates to where in 
outermost India booms the eastern ocean's 
    wonderful thunder;

whether he stops with Arabs or Hyrcani, 
Parthian bowmen or nomadic Sagae; 
or goes to Egypt, which the Nile so richly 
    dyes, overflowing;

even if he should scale the lofty Alps, or 
summon to mind the mightiness of Caesar 
viewing the Gallic Rhine, the dreadful Britons 
    at the world's far end-- 

you're both prepared to share in my adventures, 
and any others which the gods may send me.
Back to my girl then, carry her this bitter 
 
Gaius Valerius Catullus
1989

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  • Sasha Wade
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    Sasha Wade

    Sasha Wade is a poet whose work has been featured in Chestnut Review, the Baltimore Review, and Rust & Moth. She was the spring winner of Palette Poetry’s 2025 Micro Chapbook Prize.
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  • Matthew Gellman
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    Matthew Gellman

    Matthew Gellman is a queer poet and the author of The Understudy (Four Way Books, 2027) and Beforelight (BOA Editions, 2024). He is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. A PhD candidate at the University of Southern California, Gellman lives in Los Angeles. 

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  • Susan Mitchell
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    Susan Mitchell

    Susan Mitchell is the author of Erotikon (HarperCollins, 2000); Rapture (HarperCollins, 1992), a finalist for the 1992 National B

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Title Author Type Year
Borderland Apocrypha Anthony Cody Poetry Book 2020
Year of the Dog Deborah Paredez Poetry Book 2020
DMZ Colony Don Mee Choi 2020
The Malevolent Volume Justin Phillip Reed Poetry Book 2020
Indigo Ellen Bass Poetry Book 2020

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