Rumpus Original Poems
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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 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: Three Poems by Anthony Thomas Lombardi
so many miles just to slip / this skin. i won’t lie. i sobbed.
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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.
