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Rumpus Original Poetry: Four Poems by Jose Hernandez Diaz

  • Jose Hernandez Diaz
  • July 30, 2020
The palm tree stood on the beach and laughed at the sea.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Jasmine V. Bailey

  • Jasmine V. Bailey
  • July 23, 2020
It was good to wake up to your insomnia.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Delano Burrowes

  • Delano Burrowes
  • July 16, 2020
I wanted to give you one more chance to make me exist.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Threa Almontaser

  • Threa Almontaser
  • July 9, 2020
I’m dream-ghost, phantasmal, falling through floors from sighing.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Four Poems by Austin Araujo

  • Austin Araujo
  • June 25, 2020
In my dream, I give you a car to cross / that lonely little kiss of a border.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Four Poems by Janan Alexandra

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  • June 18, 2020
when I can no longer call, / what else will have no name ?
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by Karthik Sethuraman

  • Karthik Sethuraman
  • June 11, 2020
we are within the reach / of some god
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Ailish Hopper

  • Ailish Hopper
  • June 4, 2020
Every empire, a pretty / narrow waist // in someone’s speech.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Ugonna-Ora Owoh

  • Ugonna-Ora Owoh
  • May 28, 2020
I’m a citizen of several things at once, / as concern as they own me more than myself.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Jennifer Givhan

  • Jennifer Givhan
  • May 21, 2020
They are headless. As I am too often / headless. As women are wont to be.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by Keegan Lester

  • Keegan Lester
  • May 14, 2020
The maple on the grounds of the church grew sick / years ago.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by Amy Gong Liu

  • Amy Gong Liu
  • May 7, 2020
my teeth / taste like glue. my // teeth taste like sun.
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