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"Gaia" J.M. McDermott
We hadn't quite invented marriage, so
we couldn't quite divorce when
he invented infidelity.

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"It's over," Disha said aloud, "Shesh."
The juddering movement of the rickshaw
made her voice shake on that last word,
as if there was still some uncertainty left.


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Every morning l watch her go off to work
after I watch her having coffee and toast
standing at the kitchen sink while
while wearing her slip
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Fortnightly Poem

Cylindrical
by Gerardo Mena




Between firefights,
those long moments
of silence, of slow 
exhale, when I allow myself
to grasp a bullet with thumb
and forefinger—
to enjoy its shape, the feel
of its smooth brass 
skin against mine.