Low Blood Sugar
By Poetry Issue 127
In a Weigh Down Workshop once I was taught to recognize true signs of hunger. They taught me to stave off those feelings— with a half glass of juice and a little prayer. They said what I felt was spiritual hunger, that I must learn to be fed with spiritual food. I lost thirty-six pounds.…
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By Poetry Mitchell Prize 2021
“‘Container of the Uncontainable’…doesn’t fully convey the sense of the Greek. I think a better translation would be ‘fits the unfittable,’ but that just sounds awkward…” — NICOLE ROCCAS, TIME ETERNAL —————————-1. There is no angel. —————————-2. There are cicadas clicking like a ——————————-vinyl record stuck on one relentless ——————————-everlasting note. There is occasional ——————————-lowing…
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