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Editor's Note

Born of Seas
Hawa Y. Mire

Games to Break the Silence
Otieno Owino

Naivasha Lake
Monika John

Murmurs of the Spring
Livingstone Lutomia

Daguerreotype
Nduta Waweru

Not Quite Middle Class
Andiswa Maqutu

A Poem after Pausing at the Tanks Scene in the Unbearable Lightness of Being
Sanya Noel

Angel-Swing
Jane Beal

Lyra is in Massachusetts
Sanya Noel

Immigrating
Yuan Changming

The Riots Continued Off the Mainland
Dylan Debelis

Latterdam, April 1963
George Prue

We Are No Longer Children
John Ojonugwa Attah

Falling into a War Zone
Abigail George