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Issue 32 | Spring 2025

Your Impossible Voice #32 is fanning the flames of righteousness as we teeter toward a smoke-crazed horizon. We are tracing the minutia of generations through room-sized replicas and reenactments. We are drying laundry on a patchwork of metal sheets. We are back on campus, on the prowl, clawing at mattresses, chasing ghosts and radiance, plagued by absentia. Above all, we are secure in our knowledge that every fact reigns absolute, even its opposite.

Featuring new work from Vincenzo della Malva, Molara Wood, Khalil AbuSharekh, Ian MacClayn, Karen An-hwei Lee, Austin Adams, Eric T. Racher, Mary Burger, Jerry Thompson, Shawna Yang Ryan, Steve Barbaro, Kirsten Kaschock, Mark J. Mitchell, Mehrnoosh Torbatnejad, DS Maolalai, and Cliff Tisdell.

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Ode to Sending Light

By Mehrnoosh Torbatnejad

“It’s the impossibility of the well
wish that gives me pause

like, how do you even send light,
loop ribbons around shapeless glow”

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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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