“This myth, like everything // else in the realm of love, can be stripped down to the vulnerable.”

Our Valentine’s Day issue opens with this moving poem by Gustavo Hernandez.

For the past decade on every valentines day, I made a set of six cards around my interpretation of what I think Muslim Valentines Day should celebrate.

“At 4 am, on your bed, I turn to you and say, if the robot in me malfunctions–here are my twelve seconds for today;”