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Our third issue is live!! Read here: http://sugarrascals.wixsite.com/home/issue-three

This issue includes Madeika Vercella, Cindy Song, Rachael Chen, Betsy Jenifer, Chelsea Ashley, Sarah Feng, Savanna Hillhouse, Cate Freeborn, Stephanie Chang, Joy Xie, and Margot Armbuster, and spotlights Koshka Kash, Jacqueline He and Rachana Hegde.

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Death as a Mother

Death as a Mother

Who is always yawning, and sometimes careless. The daffodils strung along the rafters have fizzled and popped: quietly, root nooses dim in protest, in disquiet. There resides a negative space within the cupboard, baring sand- polished teeth from hunger, this midday ache. Mother rubs pea-sized toothpaste over wood grain, then thinks to shove sheaves of angel hair pasta down our throats. Dry straws…

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nothing within (you have soft flesh and a heart thrumming to all the right frequencies, but you are not alive. ) once i watched you conceptualize reality into free-body diagrams, simple and elegant as the inked hardwiring in your circuit board soul. your cadence is too smooth, distant like a phone operator's - and i don’t know why, but i imagine crystallized honey and disquiet on your tongue when you speak. eyes wet, i search in vain for foibles in the margins of your calculations, for minor anomalies slanting through curlicues of your mechanical serif print and i’m unsurprised to find nothing. these days your joints are wound up too rigidly beneath your automaton cocoon; maybe the zircon clock will chime at midnight and the iron exoskeleton will corrode and rust, finally exposing the human inside, vulnerable under a velvet sea of icy stars.

Title: kumquats Writer: Jacqueline He, Featured Contributor

HELM Issue 17.1: Duality