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Look, the Human Is Shrinking

By Kaveh Akbar

Fall 2016

It’s normal to do it alone, the feint-and-jab
           of forgetting. I believe in only what I can recite 

from memory, like the ninety-nine names
           for thirst: soft-hell, root-torn-from-soil, rain-

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Illustration by Anna Schuleit Haber

Holding

By Jamie Quatro, Illustrations by Anna Schuleit Haber

Winter 2016

This is how it is with my mind, heading out over the ocean, tipping one way so I see only water, shades of blue and green and cloud-shadow slate; tipping the other, all sky and complication of cloud. Ruckus of glinting refracted light. Some days, just empty gray, in both directions.

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