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EVERY DRESS IS A SIMILE by Vhi Ki Nao

INNANET by Jessica Q. Stark

MY MY SUMMER OF TOTAL FFAILURE by Ava Hofmann

The Double Slit Experiment by Christine Gosnay

Songs for 3:45 AM by Marton Simon translated by Timea Sipos

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from “viscerous” by Loren Walker

“my cells are separating”

My cells are separating: growing legs, and unfolding.
You can press your arms around my shape

but wings are spilling out; frantic, fluttering colors,
a cloudburst of butterflies, exploding in every direction.

Make a net with your fingers. Crosshatch and catch me,
one by one. Curl your palm to shelter

so the edges can be pressed into hexagons,
wings wrapped and dehydrated, into chrysalises, row by row,

to make a knee; an ear; a body
that quivers, and ripples, in stasis.

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THE DOUBLE SLIT EXPERIMENT by Christine Gosnay
SONGS FOR 3:45 AM by Márton Simon translated by Timea Sipos
FAR FROM GLORIOUS FEELING by Avni Vyas
WILL YOU KISS ME GOODNIGHT by Katie Jean Shinkle
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