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— Bailey Cohen, from “Have I Ever Been Wicked?” published in The Boiler

all sigh in the cold sea wind

Prelude to Bruise, Saeed Jones

Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)

I smoothed the feathers of my heart afraid to grow frail and hysterical. I wanted the company of cold people who would never touch me.’]

Rooney Mara as Mary Magdalene smoking a cigarette beneath crucified Jesus

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

— Brenda Shaughnessy, from “Epithalament,” Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century

-Makenzie Hipple

Margaret Atwood, You Are Happy; from ‘Circe / Mud Poems’

Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad

— Saddiq Dzukogi, from Book Two, Bakandamiya

The Taste of Tea (2004), dir. Katsuhito Ishii

The Artist’s Home (Arthur Wasse, 1920)