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The Pinch Online proudly presents our collection of poetry, featuring work by Chen Chen, Philip Levine, and others.

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Why Birds - Jennifer Givhan

The Pinch March 13, 2016

Lovebirds roost on the broken-down swings

behind our avocado tree. Yellow crumbs

dust our sheets as gently as his palm on my leg

 

when he asks Why birds? Why envy them

like gods?

I’m tired of watching birds, unthinking

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Searching For Us - Philip Levine

The Pinch February 28, 2015

Two ten-inch phonograph records, Bluebirds
going white, that won't give up their music.
My uncle's perfect clothbound book
that opened the secret of electric growth.
My mother's gap-toothed tortoise combs.

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The Pinch

Traditionally Transgressive

The Pinch is a literary journal of fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and visual art produced by the MFA program at the University of Memphis.

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