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“Bloody Murder” & “Looking at Rubenstein”
I like the look of old, liver-spotted hands
Playing Rachmaninov with complete agility
Pounding out the chords or whispering the pianissimi
“The Body Problem” & “Disaster and Me”
the soft animal of my body is rotating in the 7/11 hot dog display
“Waiting Ghazal,” “Beauty Talk” & “The Other End of ‘Have You Eaten’”
Wait for enough things at the same time, and every action becomes an effect.
Taking off a necklace. Watching a YouTube video on car repair. Drinking tea with jam we made this spring, when you told me that I just need a little more time.
Prelude: A Lump of Pure Sound
I read things and they float away. I would rather stare at my own breasts. “Mind like a steel sieve,” my father would say.
The Way Out Is Through
I pass trucks carrying oil, milk, a load of onions (mostly) covered by a tarp. You’re hot, he says.
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The winners of the 2026 Breakout Prize are Nico Amador in poetry, selected by Cynthia Cruz, and Imogen Osborne in prose, selected by Alexandra Kleeman.