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Writings \/ Poetry: Afam Akeh<\/a><\/h3>
American Trauma \r\nThere is a hole in the ground the dead cannot fill.\r\nOnly memory can feed it. And silence,\r\n\r\nthat populous sound. What the world calls power\r\nis suddenly rubble, concrete piled on grief.\r\n\r\nThe ruins of everything everywhere\r\nevidence...<\/div><\/div>\n
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Writings \/ Poetry: Luca Xifona<\/a><\/h3>
Yes \/ No \/ Yes \r\nThe day after that unexpected night,\r\nTrees were set to scatter blossoms; the sun\r\nEvaporated all our camouflage:\r\nWe were no longer friends, but lovers.\r\n\r\nI felt I could splash through petals: At last\u2014\r\nLike spoons sliding together\u2014we\u2019d coupl...<\/div><\/div>\n
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Writings \/ Poetry: Chielozona Eze<\/a><\/h3>
Poetry \r\nIt is not speaking in tongue, child;\r\nit is baiting fish with fish. \r\n\r\nAnd so, I, a blind, tap around\r\nfor the door to my history.\r\nIt\u2019s dark and dark everywhere.\r\nEmpty spaces cry for meaning!\r\n\r\nI have sworn a bond with life.\r\nTo hold my e...<\/div><\/div>\n
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Writings \/ Poetry: Emily Izsak<\/a><\/h3>
Do We Not Laugh? \r\nYou've been Shylocked,\r\nI said,\r\nas I dipped the tip of my nose\r\ninto pursed lips.\r\nThis is how Jews kiss.\r\nYou pinched a pound of stomach flesh-\r\nthough I owed you the rest of it.\r\n\r\n \r\nFresco \r\nThe putto mooning the bridegroom\r\nspews...<\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":1408,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-229","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1621,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/229\/revisions\/1621"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}