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The Root System Review
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Issue 01

A Global Excavation

Our inaugural issue is forthcoming. Submissions are open until April 15, 2026. Accepted poems will be published here after the issue launches.

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A meditation on complicity, memory, and the instruments of anti-Black violence, rendered through the objects that outlive their crimes.Featured

The Rope Remembers

Ramon Carty

I sleep in coils. I dream of throats I have never seen but know by shape—the particular architecture of air struggling to stay where it belongs.

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