AGNI 104

Draft

Contents

Editor’s Note

What Obligation
Introduction

Fiction

Aida
Translated from the Arabic by Mayada Ibrahim
Vagina
Symmetrix
A Woman Considered Beautiful
Translated from the Hungarian by Marietta Morry and Walter Burgess
Burial Ground
Nothing Is More Real Than Nothing
Ham
Bridge of Souls

Essays

The Mother Museum: Hyrtl Skull Collection
A Dream on Ice
Translated from the Arabic by Katharine Halls
A Good Story
My Father Is a hill
Bog Hag

Hybrid

[T’s story •••]
Huckleberry Finn Did This

Poetry

Labor
Courtship Sonnet
Dubai Sonnet
Midtown Sonnet
Daini
In Search Of
weehawken police department waiting room
Louise
Container Terminal Klaipėda
Translated from the German by Monika Cassel
Mariupol in Summer 2018
Translated from the German by Monika Cassel
When we were little and still slept in drawers
Translated from the German by Monika Cassel
Fetal Position in my Mother’s Wrapper
Come, Read My Poems
Translated from the Sinhala by Subhashini Malika Dharmarathna
English as a Second Language
Know me by my love, he said,
Glaucidium gnoma
I Try Again to Carve the Deer Out of the Sonnet
Ramshackle
Al-Hoda
Obit—Heba Abu Nada
Obit—Khawati
Obit—Sadiqati
The Syrian Quarter
Basement Bathroom
My Carpets Keep Me Warm
Chicago
Sappho
warning: Baba’s words of caution
In Other Words: What Odysseus Says
Translated from the German by Christopher Nelson and Monika Cassel
A script born of fingertips
PTSD
Smoke rising
The Centennial State
The Pseudofruit
Emerald Veil
Sex-Portrait on the Lower Deck
Balconies
Translated from the Catalan by Cyrus Cassells
The Devil’s Dance Hall
Rat Race Haibun
Silvia Rosa
Translated from the Spanish by J. P. Allen

Art Feature

Pregnant with You
Bliss, New York
Shaheen Bagh, Inhtijaj, Resistance (Delhi, 2019)
from Gut Feelings Meri Jaan
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