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Where We SWWIM: Dispatches from the Editors

Have a Poetic (and Cool!) Summer

Kelp Me, Doctor, I’m a Female Echinoderm

Mead Botanical Gardens

My Daughter Doesn’t Speak to Me

Summer Vacation in the Subjunctive

Mass Ascension

Back Seat Sonnet

Dear Mary,

American Snake Sonnet

Interior Vs. Exterior

Are You Making the Most of Summer? / Looming Heat Spike

自摸 independent woman

Thérèse Dreaming

Herd Mentality

Spring Mourning: after the plane crash

Cardinal Song

Hydrangea

To My Unborn Children, Whose Cells Live on in My Body

The Body of My Lady (Now That I Know a Good Lady)

Commitment

I Turn Forty and Don’t Panic

I Wanted to be a Heart

Brooding

We Got Future

Pondweed

Prophecy

Things I’ve Been Meaning to Say

The Lesson of Garlic

Carina

At the New Bedford Whaling Museum

New Baby Haibun

He Came Forth Like a New Beginning

I’m “Fucking Stupid,” He Says or Something About the Similarities Between Human and Zebrafish Hearts

Korincha

Incantation for an Operatic Child

A Mistake Is

Where We SWWIM: Dispatches from the Editors

The mother

Dinner Frames

Before

The Shoes by the Door

Runaway Moon

Adult Children

Parable of the Water’s Folly

unattended

Sonnet with Zinnias, Roses, But Not Persimmons

Thought Monster

Just Outside Rome

Origin of Crows

Givens

Ritual

The Colorless December Sky

Three Men

Loss

Along the Path of the Triassic

PRAYER for WHAT STAYS, as a CORSET

Sailor's Eyeball

Cardinal Signs

We All Still Die

Room

Egret

At the Market

Appointment

Litany

History with Fire

Silverwear

The Peace

Abecedarian at the Threshold

After the storm

April as a synonym for beginning

Faith Is a Thing with Running Shoes

2nd Annual SWWIM Loves You Back!

The Human Race: My Yelp Review

Is this your dog?

hello to my triple chin

Cajole: A Brief History

Scene From a Birmingham Diner Rated Four Stars by Zagat

Morning in Midlife

Apparition

Remodeling Project

The Good News

The wild rain

Seedheads, golden

Believe Me

Dance Improvisation

Wringer

when Chen Chen tweets about deer in a poem

Wanting Not to Want You, Too Young

Each Time

Fire and Ice

I Pretend To Know How Everything Would Unfold

Self-Portrait with No Spare Parts

Forecast

Harvest

Audiometry

Susan, Gone

How to Reach the Moon by Folding

Freud with his family at home

the boy

Pareidolia

Maybe you hold it like a fruit

5 PM

Driving My 22 Year-Old’s Car

Where We SWWIM: Dispatches from the Editors

Almost a Heart

Slow Work

To Sylvia Plath

4th Century Roman Belt Ornament

Sonnet BOOM! Deadline Approaching

Of Peaches and Patience

To Talk of Age

The Models Are Missing Something

Winnowed by Waters

Minotaur

Sonnet BOOM!

Desire

yamaha summer

Soldier's Heart

Secondhand Smoke

Thirty-Year Friendship

The Self Slipping Free

Going Under

Canción

Plum Tree Cento

Espalier

Gateway to Lomonosov

Disasters of the Water Kind

efucke

Depression

Modern Degas

A Thousand Bee Stings

Fourth

Shaving My Legs for the First Time in Twenty Years

Morning Blue

Carousel #2

January