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8 by Miguel Ángel López Muñoz, translated by S. Qiouyi Lu

March 3, 2022March 3, 2022 Miguel Ángel López Muñoz

Spanish (original) Terrible número éste,sin personalidad ni nada que ofrecer a la naturaleza. Una potencia par, y tan poco poder

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view of greenhouse
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Shelter by Koji A. Dae

February 21, 2022February 21, 2022 Koji A. Dae

we stole architecture from the chief creatorwe built new blueprints for shelteringecotecture playing in the mudtechnotecture reaching for the starsthe

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brown wooden house
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up in the mountains by Rachel Markell

February 21, 2022February 21, 2022 Rachel Markell

lost oversized fire eating air up hestops sleeping next to memakes silence burnteaches me about heat sayscoal is dead here

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photo of a full moon
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That Ring of White Mist by Alvaro Zinos-Amaro

February 21, 2022February 21, 2022 Alvaro Zinos-Amaro

That ring of white mist floating against the night sky is no flying saucer but the fading exhalation on a

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blue green and red peacock feather
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A Bird in Hand by Shelly Jones

February 21, 2022February 21, 2022 Shelly Jones

When the birds come, plumes molting, neckscraned to see your face, do not hesitate:offer them seeds to peck at, wool

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abstract beach bright clouds
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Crisis Lines by Mariel Herbert

February 21, 2022February 21, 2022 Mariel Herbert

You said I couldn’t run away from my problems in zero-gee.Then you coughed up a lung & dropped your phone.

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body of water near mountain under green sky
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[Cosmic beauty washed ashore:] by Mariel Herbert

February 21, 2022February 21, 2022 Mariel Herbert

Cosmic beauty washed ashore: interlocking multiverse of her radiant scales; infinite recursive spaces left for wreckers to force open to

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woman in a spacesuit with blue helmet
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[a perfect haiku] by Marcus Vance

February 21, 2022February 21, 2022 Marcus Vance

a perfect haikumust include kigo:seasonal reference.we must learn anewthe seasonson Ganymede Photo by Mikhail Nilov on Pexels.com

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tall trees
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Through the Cracks in the Universe by Jason P. Burnham

February 21, 2022February 21, 2022 Jason P. Burnham

Once upon a time through the woods, we dreamt in the treesThrough the clouds, we slept among starsThrough space, we

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backlit breathing apparatus danger dangerous
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Once in Power by Jason P. Burnham

February 21, 2022February 21, 2022 Jason P. Burnham

It smelled like the status quo, looked like equalityEverything stood in their wayThey broke down the walls, burned the world

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