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Five Poems, by Ewa Chrusciel

A baby titmouse is tucking itself under my elbow. Its beak ajar to let out a tiny snore. I…

I arrive at the airport, sweaty, dazed by drugs, my sweater hiding the chemo port. I haven’t been to…

Scintillant Trudging uphill, I turn onto a deer path then follow the switchbacks you marked with orange streamers until…

Emotions: A Boxed Set Heebie-Jeebies It’s the kind of tail-in-socket anxiety that plugs directly into the body— manifesting in…

Elisabeth Sheffield and Christina Milletti in Conversation “There are so many ways in which there is no crime.”—Gertrude Stein…

“Over here is where we starve them,” I announce. During the first five minutes of the tour, three administrators…

The bracelet—a double, really, made of two gold strands—was a college graduation gift from my elegant great-aunt. This was…

“More bird, Goodman Page?” asked the stout Master Buxton as he sawed a leg from a goose sitting, solemn…

Day #1101 The hospitals are exploding in the middle of the city and they tell us The dead are…

We go here in the now. No need for fancy devices, no need for paperwork with its infinity of…