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New poem up today in the new issue of The Garlic Press - SUBS OPEN. It features a misspelled NBA jersey, some street nachos from a brewery in Des Moines, & the sky. garlicpresslit.com/issues/issue-2…

“We were like halves of ourselves hoping food would double us. We’d done well, they said; they said halves of Kingdoms had fallen. At home, they said, trees were heavy with peaches.” Katie Beswick (Katie Beswick), from “Human Hunger” garlicpresslit.com/issues/issue-2…

“because each one spared means another eighty born and I don’t want the crops to fail. This is my mission to save us.” James Croal Jackson (@jimjakk), from “Invasive Species” garlicpresslit.com/issues/issue-2…

“Here 4 a symbiont, wanna live in me? Together, we’ll grow a blush of bright lichen, I’ll build us a cell if you’ll photosynthesize, Release ur spores onto my body like lichen.” Katharine Tyndall, from “Lichen Dating” garlicpresslit.com/issues/issue-2…

“you named me the cold spill of a double arc-ed devil. when I make living circles, I disco weirdless and weary. cry with me all bug-eyed and hungry.” Molly Knox (Molly Knox🪴🏳️‍🌈 (she/they)), from “Fairy Ring” garlicpresslit.com/issues/issue-2…

“can i say that? can i say my bloodline is the wrong side of a coin skipping against asphalt?” silas denver melvin (silas denver 🛸), from “lineage, with one question” garlicpresslit.com/issues/issue-2…

“outside the window, children in their mucking boots. a hiccup of purple finches. her mouth turned down when she asks, & what were you going to say?” silas denver melvin (silas denver 🛸), from “birdsong & somewhere” garlicpresslit.com/issues/issue-2…

“he insisted that I dance while I played, read the music while I swayed, put my fifteen-year-old hips into it. Reader, how do I put this? Only the rind of me left that football field. The marrow stayed.” Kate Kadleck, from “Suburban Virgin” garlicpresslit.com/issues/issue-2…

“I am funny, am I not? Let scrunchies advise those gaps in circuits (for the plot I swear) heat meaning error spark meaning heat keep the first person away & loosen its ties when the moon rises just for the fun of it.” Keyi Wang, from “The Twelfth Elegy” garlicpresslit.com/issues/issue-2…

“people like to use a lot of things as synonyms because precision is tough— Sabrina Ionescu makes less than half her threes & we call it greatness.” Justin Carter (@juscart), from “Resemblances” garlicpresslit.com/issues/issue-2…

“We are the children of Walmart clearance aisles, acrylic paint lacquered on nails and chins and teeth. Watch our veins pop. Can you see the chemical rainbows? Step closer.” Lewis Millholland (Lewis Millholland), from “Fresh-Squeezed Crystalline Corrosion” garlicpresslit.com/issues/issue-2…

“in my head a crocus was never magical a woman on our street rescued a ferret I couldn’t even focus on her story of how it turned out to be a mink generic escitalopram you surprised me” Alicia Rebecca Myers, from “Lexaprode” garlicpresslit.com/issues/issue-2…

“Gone are the mirror, the plate of peach pits, the shards of glass pitching back weak sunlight. Night rushes you forward. It tastes like salt and it is almost endless.” Anne Menasché, from “Still Life with Fish” garlicpresslit.com/issues/issue-2…

“Growing up is so trivial, not much different to how hair and skin become dust to fill time. They gather around the house we left behind, full of liberation.” Wing Yau (Wing Yau), from “Pei (Skin)” garlicpresslit.com/issues/issue-2…

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