What’s Mine of Wilderness?

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    What’s Mine of Wilderness?

    Chad B. Anderson

    The question echoing throughout the issue explores how nature rewards and punishes us in equal measure for our attempts to claim it...

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    What's Mine of Wilderness?

    Poetry

    Two Poems

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    Sometimes a raptor / rose and fell, sliding between centuries, to where // we had not yet coined the word anthropocene. / I walked. What’s mine of wilderness?
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    Brood

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    It’s the Armageddon / of sound, for me…Triassic fireworks / spewing from the ground, buzzing like cables / ripped from a pole in a thunderstorm...
    Short Story

    The Mastiff

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    The mastiff didn't count days, but he knew his pack had been gone longer than ever before. There had been four of them. The man, the woman, the little boy, and the mastiff himself...

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    i left new york and started growing dahlias. / they don’t mean much. just patience burst / in the yard...
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    She found herself outside without understanding how she’d gotten there. In the days after the accident, time had often played tricks on her, morphine sanding off the boundaries between scenes, dumping her into conversations without beginning or end...
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    Lake Placid

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    In literature, as in life, a problem emerges here, pecking its way out of a tough and fragile shell. This will lead awkwardly or gracefully to the end of the story...

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    Power

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    For the next eight weeks, BP Review will publish a new poem that engages with the idea of power. These poems will collectively highlight the range and journey required to connect to the source, both within ourselves and between one another...
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    The Driver

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    I should also mention he was holding a gun. A friendly gun. A gun that belonged in a gun show or an old Spaghetti Western. In fact, everyone in the room had a gun.
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    that smoke; detail of shears; detail of matches; i go to a hole in the wall carribean restaurant because their beans taste like my father’s beans...
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    The Armadillo

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    The old man told us to spend more time in graveyards and I will not I will spend more time with the armadillo because he shows me there is such a thing as un-sad
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    Wish You Were Here

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    I feel like I want to apologize for the quality of these postcards. I wish they had been better ones, and that I could have sent you images of sunsets and palm trees and dazzling flamingos.
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    Mouse

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    Disney stuck an explosive in the mascot’s mouth, lit it up, then pop, smiled at his blackface in the mirror
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    Nakba

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    This language tastes like songs of my sedo and before, days when land was soft beneath bare feet, before bombshells bore into ground, before bullet skins showered seeds in the dust.