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What Is Otherwise Infinite by Bianca Stone
epub |eng | 2021-12-03 | Author:Bianca Stone

mouththat was stuck to him— Now, tell me, what kind of person says: tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow every day before she falls asleep, like a prayer in reverse, like the ancient ...
( Category: Nature December 19,2022 )
Refractive Africa by Will Alexander
epub |eng | 2021-11-02 | Author:Will Alexander

Eruption from the Compound of Living For Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo Beneath a luminous compound equator inscribed on Madagascar Jean-Joseph you erupted from disquiet alive as post-zodiacal phantom knowing from birth that ...
( Category: African December 19,2022 )
Flight and Metamorphosis by Nelly Sachs
epub |eng | | Author:Nelly Sachs

SAVED, many things fall into the baskets of memories because even this age of night will have its fossils the black-bordered elegies of its crookedly piled dust. Maybe too the ...
( Category: German December 19,2022 )
Waking Occupations by Phoebe Wang
epub |eng | 2022-03-22 | Author:Phoebe Wang [Wang, Phoebe]

BRIEF ENCOUNTER WITH MING DYNASTY VASE What to do with the light that cannot be contained, the woman that will not be held? What does she satisfy, century to century? ...
( Category: Canadian December 19,2022 )
I Know Your Kind by William Brewer
epub |eng | 2017-09-02 | Author:William Brewer

WHAT WE CAN REPLACE —What’s the last thing you remember of fear? Someone threw my head into a wall. And the dust of my teeth burst forth, falling like fake ...
( Category: Places December 19,2022 )
Dear Specimen by W.J. Herbert
epub |eng | 2021-12-15 | Author:W.J. Herbert [Herbert, W. J.]

“I don’t know how it ends, Sarah,” “I don’tI say, “but the boy loves the manatees’ whiskered faces, flippers tipped with fingernails, flippers tipped with finlike his, and he wonders ...
( Category: Family December 19,2022 )
Woman, Eat Me Whole by Ama Asantewa Diaka
epub |eng | 2022-02-16 | Author:Ama Asantewa Diaka

Our utopias are different You think my struggle is a privilege. You think insensitive landladies, a business on wobbling knees and a body that struggles to stay alive is a ...
( Category: African December 19,2022 )
Requeening by Amanda Moore
epub |eng | 2021-08-19 | Author:Amanda Moore

Self-Defense Haibun The school called it Assertiveness Training for girls 13 and over. At the end-of-day showcase they are practicing self-defense against their teachers who are disguised by inches of ...
( Category: Death, Grief & Loss December 19,2022 )
The Old Life by Donald Hall
epub |eng | | Author:Donald Hall

He liked to repeat advice that Rodin gave to young sculptors: “If you’re working on a maquette, and it doesn’t go right, don’t keep picking at the clay, making little ...
( Category: Death December 19,2022 )
Selected Poems by Ai Qing
epub |eng | 2021-11-02 | Author:Ai Qing [Ai Qing]

Spring 1940 MOUNTAIN ELM Spring thunderstorm roughly shakes the mountain elm Spring thunderstorm violently jolts my heart Proud, erect and haughty, brown leaves blow in mountain wilds, tinged with earth’s ...
( Category: Chinese December 19,2022 )
Machete by Tomás Q. Morín
epub |eng | 2021-10-12 | Author:Tomás Q. Morín [Morín, Tomás Q.]

Royal Silence for c. dale young This much I know, as I came down the mountain and the valleys were revealed and my ears clogged so that all I could ...
( Category: Hispanic American December 19,2022 )
Catcalling by Lee Soho
epub |eng | 2021-12-15 | Author:Lee Soho

Like laundry stiffened and sprawled on the floor I am tossed and wrinkled whichever way to be worn at random Your nude body just as it is I wordlessly watch ...
( Category: Poetry December 19,2022 )
Howdie-Skelp by Paul Muldoon
epub |eng | | Author:Paul Muldoon

THE FLY Surrounded as he is by the blood spatter from the cut and thrust over an idea to which he was but briefly wed, the fly is washing his ...
( Category: European December 19,2022 )
As Far As You Know by A.F. Moritz
epub |eng | 2020-03-04 | Author:A.F. Moritz

Dream dream of day dream of night to be released from the old man the first man brooding his crimes and losses never to be forgiven dream in the key ...
( Category: Canadian December 19,2022 )
Stepmotherland by Darrel Alejandro Holnes
epub |eng | 2022-01-18 | Author:Darrel Alejandro Holnes

by remembering, as she desperately closes her eyes like fists and fights you to forget— A woman you can’t stop loving, come bruise or blood shine. Hold her, if you ...
( Category: Hispanic American December 19,2022 )

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