MiddleLost 4, Winter 2025

Editor’s Note: The Lattice Serif

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Alireza Roshan From The Book of Absence Translated from Persian by Erfan Mojib & Gary Gach

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Mary Yordy, “THE KEY TO LIFE, or One Hundred Years Under the Step”

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Susan Schultz, “Or, if writing is what needs to be done”

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KIRBY, Untitled   

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Cat Rush, Untitled (Pastels, paintings and collage) 

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Tim Early, Untitled 

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Laura Carter, Untitled 

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Salah Faik, Poems by Salah Faik, Translated by Maged Zahler

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Judy VerPlanck Elliot, Untitled (Paintings)

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Joseph Donahue, From an Drochshaol  

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Joe Fletcher, From “The Crusades”  

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Marcos Canteli, como una corona, Translated by Nima Babajani-Feremi 

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G. Pohl, Untitled (Assemblages)  

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Georg Trakl, “Eleven Poems” Translated by John Mellor

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Rainer Maria Rilke, “Poems for Lulu Albert-Lazard” Translated by David Need

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Contributor’s Notes

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Acknowledgements and Contact Info 

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Sketch of crow on a branch