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BOMB Magazine | Three Poems

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By Milo De Angelis, Donika Kelly, Didi Jackson
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You can’t imagine, my friend, how many things stay hidden in an end, you can’t understand the crushed gravel your life becomes yet it was beautiful, I remember it, it was what the cosmic force asked for, a youth of orchards, the exalted art my mother had hoped for. SUBSCRIBE AND JOIN NOW LOGIN Every fruit has its tremor and it reaches me from those ancient lands now I am the precipice of myself and little by little life is caught in its end forever.
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“What I Might Sing”

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By Donika Kelly
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Last Friday, I was thinking of Whitney Houston, and, because of you, I was thinking too of America, what I might sing of it. In elementary school, I pledged allegiance, the opening words still the fastest way for me to find my right hand, for my right hand to find my heart. I struggled to say indivisible—not individual or invisible but the opposite of both.
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Leah Flax Barber by Claudia Ross

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By Donika Kelly
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“The shape of my character starts / Not in my mind / But in my experience,” says Columbina, the voice of the opening section of Leah Flax Barber’s debut poetry collection, The Mirror of Simple Souls (Winter Editions, 2025). In the Italian theatre tradition commedia dell’arte, Columbina is known as a saucy, keenly intelligent servant character—a speaker that takes on a new shape in Flax Barber’s poems, introducing a collection that becomes even more desirous and ephemeral as it surges on.
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