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Once again, a poem about [    ] by Sagirah Shahid In this returning emergency, in this crisisI give you love poemscaught between my teeth. What’s new about the little liars our lives have become?I need you to taste this day with me,to live it out with gusto, even though we both knowwe’re going to die eventually. You can’t teach a poet new tricks.I lattice my fingers into yoursand let my eyes lap up the moonwith you by my side. We are both shiny and larger than lifeon the inside. We are both cratered and citylesson the inside. No one inhabits usexcept for the lightwhich we reflect backto the people who keepprecise distance. As if to avoidthe growing shadowwhich comes backas much as it leaves us. We are invisible now.We are visible. We are the smallestsliver of universe.We are almost whole. Fiction Home Art by Kelley Hudson