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From the Archive: Kim Fu (CAROUSEL 34)

KIM FU Lifecycle of the Mole-Woman: Infancy as a Human I’ve seen this waist-high grassand weeping tree before, in a drugstore frameand a Bollywood movie, the trunk a ...
On November 24, 2020 / By Staff
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From the Archive: Matthew Walsh (CAROUSEL 33)

MATTHEW WALSH Scenes of a Sunday Dinner on Musquodobit Road They got the meat and pataytas, so all’s right wit the world.Even them cans a vegetables are smilin’. ...
On November 18, 2020 / By Staff
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From the Archive: Nyla Matuk (CAROUSEL 33)

NYLA MATUK On Distance and Heartbreak Gift of grey from Man Ray,my heart was the shape of Australia.If p, then q. Incalculably wide marginalia.Plain, upside, down under, safe ...
On November 16, 2020 / By Staff
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From the Archive: Michael Prior (CAROUSEL 32)

MICHAEL PRIOR Everything looking different, the night’s time took me so I wandered a twisting a dive, the bends transforming me,embolisms like diamonds hanging in darkness,tissue turning grey, ...
On November 13, 2020 / By Staff
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From the Archive: Natalie Morrill (CAROUSEL 32)

NATALIE MORRILL Mrs. Fannie Winthrop, upon discovering that her husband is an octopus But she decides she mustn’t let him thinkit puts her off. She won’t throw the ...
On November 11, 2020 / By Staff
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From the Archive: Cassidy McFadzean (CAROUSEL 32)

CASSIDY MCFADZEAN The Living Skies Struck Us Dead Most of this is coffee and metaphors,and mornings waking up in the dark.When lightning hit the gable,it shook our bed, ...
On November 9, 2020 / By Staff
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From the Archive: Catrionia Wright (CAROUSEL 31)

Catriona Wright My Roommate is in love and can’t disguise it.Cara loitering on his lips,a tickle at the back of his throatbegging to be coughed out. When I ...
On November 4, 2020 / By Staff
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From the Archive: Terry Trowbridge (CAROUSEL 31)

TERRY TROWBRIDGE Superman’s Pal, Jimmy Olsen Puberty is the moment a man becomes beautiful.He wakes up stronger than he was when he fell asleepif he bothered to sleep ...
On November 2, 2020 / By Staff
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From the Archive: Janet Hepburn (CAROUSEL 30)

JANET HEPBURN Somei-Yushino Sakura (flowering cherry tree) I sit beneath a canopy of lace — exquisite, delicate veil of tissue paper circles Translucent white like the faces of porcelain ...
On October 26, 2020 / By Staff
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From the Archive: Katie Jordon (CAROUSEL 29)

KATIE JORDON Waitress I see the same labourers every morning on my wayto work, they use yellow gloves that remind me of something other than yellow gloves. I ...
On October 22, 2020 / By Staff
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From the Archive: Louisa Howerow (CAROUSEL 29)

LOUISA HOWEROW Jigsaw Puzzle The kitchen smells of cabbage and quiet.On the table a jigsaw puzzle,the Basilica di San Marcowhose four hundred pieces my mother sortsinto straight edges, ...
On October 21, 2020 / By Staff
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From the Archive: Claire Caldwell (CAROUSEL 28)

CLAIRE CALDWELL The Summer of Dead Birds 1It was the summer of cold hands.We played bingo in the afternoons,sipping cups of warm beer. It kept the birds out. ...
On October 13, 2020 / By Staff
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From the Archive: Laurie D. Graham (CAROUSEL 27)

LAURIE D. GRAHAM The Window Blind Factory Hardshipis the endurance of atrophy. On break outside Derwent High School,now a blind factory cultivating jobs, in the bookless classrooms of ...
On October 10, 2020 / By Staff
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From the Archive: Natalie Zina Walschots (CAROUSEL 27)

NATALIE ZINA WALSCHOTS Supervillains Charybdis wolf-bellied and writhingshe the rock to your whirlpool all bladder all mouthyou vomit seawatereffluence all salt slavering tentacle to gaping mawperfect dinner companions ...
On October 9, 2020 / By Staff
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From the Archive: Yi-Mei Tsiang (CAROUSEL 27)

YI-MEI TSIANG We Take Our Children Tobogganing after wrestling with boots and mittsafter packing hot chocolate, teddy grahams, extra socks,after waiting out the held-breath tantrum over zippers. We ...
On October 5, 2020 / By Staff
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From the Archive: Jaime Forsythe (CAROUSEL 26)

JAIME FORSYTHE Lavender Pulse He was in a home, had soft bones, pausedfor days between thoughts, but knew whenevery one of us was born. All those phone calls,triple ...
On September 30, 2020 / By Staff
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From the Archive: Julie Cameron Gray (CAROUSEL 26)

JULIE CAMERON GRAY Widow Fantasies I want my husband to disappear, dissolvelike a spoonful of sugar in a cup of coffee. I want him to fall asleep at ...
On September 28, 2020 / By Staff
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From the Archive: Liisa Ladouceur (CAROUSEL 25)

LIISA LADOUCEUR Warren Ellis’ Violin Because poets are like shoesbest when foreignand in translationall of ache is lost.Because sad songscan only say so muchin four minutes twentyand life ...
On September 22, 2020 / By Staff
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From the Archive: Fred Gaysek (CAROUSEL 24)

FRED GAYSEK Figuring 16 — for Jesse Harris and liquid corescoring image surfacerace matter in matterhatter madder than ever beforeit is in saying one aliveone fossilone fool fuel ...
On September 17, 2020 / By Staff
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From the Archive: Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán (CAROUSEL 24)

AHIMSA TIMOTEO BODHRÁN Vergüenza He didn’t realize the shame of being Native was the same as the shame in being queer. The shame of wanting to touch something, ...
On September 15, 2020 / By Staff