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The Giraffe

By Charles O. Smith

Atop a hill at the westernmost point of the city stood an ancient fortress overlooking a rocky offshore archipelago inhabited by sea lions, gulls, and crustaceans.

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Issue 31 | Fall 2024

Your Impossible Voice #31 finds the doomsday clock ticking twenty days from the apocalypse. It’s chock-full of liars, the lost, and the lonely floating in fog and hungry for cake, eggs, and kink. All that plus Allen Ginsberg, Frida Kahlo, and a magnificent tower of giraffes.

Featuring work by Joshua Escobar, Adelheid Duvanel (translated by Tyler Schroeder), Tanya Žilinskas, Sumitra Singam, Jean-Luc Raharimanana (translated by Tom Tulloh), Arlene Tribbia, Addison Zeller, Mehdi M. Kashani, Katherine Elizabeth Seltzer, Jane Snyder, Charles O. Smith, Taro Williams, Joanna Theiss, Kirsten Kaschock, Gerónimo Sarmiento Cruz, Steve Castro, Linda Wojtowick, and Ann Pedone.

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Bind yourself to us with your impossible voice, your voice! sole soother of this vile despair.

—Arthur Rimbaud, “Phrases

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