I guess it’s a funny thing, really,
how I can’t hear Boyz II Men,
even the 90s bedroom countdown
and the colour blue of Michael McCrary’s
‘Injection, fellas’ without wanting
to cry. A real cry. Look! I’ve slipped into
the surprise and trapdoor
of my own heartache
just like that. The Cool…
40 years of Granta

The Silkworms
Nothing to see here!

Peace Shall Destroy Many
What made him do what he did? Could it have all been for an ice cream bar, really? Will any of us ever know?

Blue Sky Days
What made him do what he did? Could it have all been for an ice cream bar, really? Will any of us ever know?

Vladimir in Love
What made him do what he did? Could it have all been for an ice cream bar, really? Will any of us ever know?

The Transition
What made him do what he did? Could it have all been for an ice cream bar, really? Will any of us ever know? What made him do what he did? Could it have all been for an ice cream bar, really? Will any of us ever know?
Aracelis Girmay
Aracelis Girmay is the author of the collage-based picture book, changing, changing and the poetry collections Teeth and Kingdom Animalia, for which she was awarded a GLCA New Writers Award and the Isabella Gardner Award, respectively. She teaches in the School for Interdisciplinary Arts at Hampshire College.
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