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Kris Spencer · Poetry · August 2026
for Niloofar and Philip
the mirrored morning
pushes out
the mirrored morning
pushes out
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Bulă, or How We Invented Quantum
Jaia Papitz
A literary satire about laughter, bureaucracy, and the small cosmic errors that keep reality from sealing itself shut.
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6.10 a.m.
Kris Spencer
the floorboards don’t creak
twenty press-ups on the rug
sometimes
twenty press-ups on the rug
sometimes
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The Sound Money Makes
saharnaz omran
I need a blank page where sounds can sit.
How do you know a sound has truly been produced?
At what tempo does a violinist play for a wealthy man?
How do you know a sound has truly been produced?
At what tempo does a violinist play for a wealthy man?
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Subtraction
Marcia Yudkin
“What is it?” I had just unwrapped a wedding gift sent by my cousin Barbara.
A filigreed silver railing surrounded a padded surface four or five inches in diameter.
Eventually I learned it was a wine bottle coaster, meant to showcase an opened wine bott…
A filigreed silver railing surrounded a padded surface four or five inches in diameter.
Eventually I learned it was a wine bottle coaster, meant to showcase an opened wine bott…
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The Age of Disappearing
Barys Paulau
She sat at the corner table in a bar called The Last Honest Place, which was neither hon…
It was the kind of establishment where the lighting forgave everything and the drinks we…
I watched her from the doorway.
It was the kind of establishment where the lighting forgave everything and the drinks we…
I watched her from the doorway.
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How to Pray
Mark LaMonda
I can’t trim gristle
off fatty meat
and pray at the same time,
off fatty meat
and pray at the same time,
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From the archive
Jaia Papitz · 2011 · Poetry
A recovered text from the first iExile body — returned to circulation, not as nostalgia, but because it still burns.
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2009 — Quest
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2012 — Symbolics
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2014 — Of Else
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