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What Justice Around the World Has in Common

I fell on an incline, talus, tibia, fibula, calcaneal tendon mangled, 
red circuits ruptured, body facing east toward a little town named 
Climax and then New York where I once danced in a circle of girls 

We were just three weeks out from closing this issue when the Unite the Right movement—comprising Nazis, white nationalists, and Klansmen, among others—descended on Charlottesville and provoked a weekend of bedlam and terror that left...

On my way to the fertility clinic,

                                  I pass five dead animals.

First a raccoon with all four paws to the sky
               like he’s going to catch whatever bullshit load falls on him next.

Adolescent Girlhood, the Occult, and the Slender Man Phenomenon

Where is the drug to drug this feeling out of me, the drug 
to drug away the fear of drugs and what they steal from me 

Border Patrol’s Obscure, Omnipresent 100-Mile-Zone

I’m driving down to Tennessee, but before I get there, I stop at the Kentucky state line to fuel up and pee. The dog’s in the car and the weather’s fine. As I pump the gas a man in his black Ford F150 yells out his window about my body. I...

In Northern Albania, vengeance is as likely a form of restitution as anything the criminal-justice system can offer.

The lambs this year are dumb but lambs are dumb
their tiny brains archaic smiles humans to a lamb