Rumpus Original Poetry: Four Poems by Leah Claire Kaminski
it’s dark there, and wet, and time is closing in
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Rumpus Original Poems
Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by lukas ray hall
you wake up early / & do me no good.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by Lisa Ampleman
I miss space, when I’m not / reading about it
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by Janiru Liyanage
The story thrummed its bruise open and never stopped
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Jireh Deng
The ancient sapien instinct: love is an approximation to danger.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Jennifer Loyd
Sculpture—a body tearing into a body.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Àkpà Árinzèchukwu
I guess we’ll never know // if God is for or against us.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by Yvanna Vien Tica
So, earthquake as a god, // creatures as determined judges.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by Charity E. Yoro
suffered the elements / habitable // space / deteriorating in the absence
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Four Poems by Jai Dulani
there came a night I thanked god // for reincarnation.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by Zefyr Lisowski
He wasn’t my father but someday would be someone’s.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Jessica Le
The steam wallows out of the kettle and your book’s pages / turn themselves.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by Bryan Byrdlong
We / not a boat people / rather / water // undammed / a waiting hurricane
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Serrina Zou
One day, I will cheat death & wake up // in the afterlife after dusk, breathing.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Maya Salameh
the doctors – never warn you about the poem / between your legs.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by KB Kinkel
You’ve done this before, you know. In so many bodies.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by Adela Najarro
My mother’s words / explode volcanic vowels.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by Jenny Shi
Barrier becomes a name // for guarding ourselves.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Alysse McCanna
I am a swell that breaks / against the rigging, teeth that tear the tide
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Raymond Antrobus
On screen, I’m peering up a faintly lit staircase and all goes grainy.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Julie Phillips Brown
I keep my distance. / I know it is a place for animals.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by Jewel C. Cao
This is the site / of an infinite swallowing.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Four Poems by SM Stubbs
We are full / of the many ways bodies breach and trespass.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by Anuel Rodriguez
Your chest a prism of painted horses. / Your lungs reservoirs for holy water rain.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Marianne Boruch
Maybe not humble but make me— / how about pious?
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Matt Broaddus
People stare with their compass / faces asking the same question.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by L. A. Johnson
If before I imagined a gorgeous lake, / by now it would’ve trembled empty.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Four Poems by Arati Warrier
But sometimes a brief moment vibrates in my chest // leaves me to chase desire.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Sihle Ntuli
I will tell you about // the vicious slobbering dogs of suburbia
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Kristi Estefania Stout Larios
I know if I open them I will see the ship // the ocean I came from.
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