THE CORE REVIEW

THE CORE REVIEW

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Issue 3 | Fall 2025

Contents

Featured

A Tornado Touches Down in My Hometown

Full Sturgeon Moon

Sweet Rot

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The Lesbians On Tumblr Are Telling Me to Eat a Sandwich

Bump and Run

Aisle of Mirrors

AJAR

Rusty Dream

Buttons

the animals walked out of the burning meadow

The Lepidopterist

Poem for the Willimantic Alligator

Teeth in Rows

Palabras Peligrosas

Crisis

Filching

Commas

Restraint

Descendants

Suffering Through

A Short Inventory of Small Ruins

Springing Into Rest

Shades of Blue

Light Language

Where It Began

Issue 2 | Spring 2025

Contents

Featured

Dry Spell

Crying About Old Women at the Macy’s Jewelry Counter (Again)

Taste of Burning Sugar

Virgin Mojito

Dough-Over

Gluten Breath

Off Menu

The First Time I Gave Birth

Married White Male

Pimping for Flowers

Self Portrait as Silkworm

Postmodern Transportation

My Lips Are Up Here

a doctor conducts an interrogation with my spinal column

What the Desert Gave Me

Signing the Guest Book

Ode to the Collapsed Barn Off the Interstate

High Bridge Park

If You Weren’t You

Lord of the Fishes

Taipei, July 2022–Georgia, 2024

Afternoon in the Archives

For a Ghost

A Perfect, Pale Darkness

Technicolor

Brain

Heart

This is a Poem, Not Trash

Bok-bok Brother

Dinner Party: She Comes to the Door

Issue 1 | Fall 2024

Contents

Featured

Dinner Party In Green

Inheritance

If Jesus and Judas walked into a bar after the last supper

Top Chef S13 E8: On Microgreens

Market Day

Last Gasp

The Oldest Man in the Skateboard Park

Matchbook Dominoes

On Identity

Dinner with Enya

Dermatillomania

Dead Deer, Nebraska

Going home the weekend the boy I used to love died

Can’t Go Home

The Imaginers

Said the Lily Leaf to the Slug

One of These Things First

Of Course You Can’t Really Change Anyone

A Color of Wheat to the Forest Wall

if you had truly tasted the rainbow, you would know it tastes like the drive to Great Smoky Mountains National Park in the fall

Coupon Royals

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Descendants

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Suffering Through

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A Short Inventory of Small Ruins

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Springing Into Rest

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Shades of Blue

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Light Language

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Where It Began

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Dry Spell

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Crying About Old Women at the Macy’s Jewelry Counter (Again)

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Taste of Burning Sugar

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Virgin Mojito

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Dough-Over

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Gluten Breath

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Off Menu

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The First Time I Gave Birth

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Married White Male

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Pimping for Flowers

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Self Portrait as Silkworm

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Postmodern Transportation

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