Ending 2020 on a hopeful, forward-looking note, this winter issue presents dozens of new writers.
Sebastián Hasani Páramo
Blood & Breath
Somewhere, years ago, I ate dirt.
Somehow I forgot this dark.
I forgot beginnings. Who recalls
the Earth’s birth? Years go on.
We become ruins, dust—oblivion.
The first brothers’ wisdom was to kill. . . .