The sky asked the river
‘How do I look?’
Biswadip Chakraborthy
Azrael’s Call – Hamiruddin Middya
She suddenly sat bolt upright, pointed to a corner and screamed, “Look Khadu, look at that hideous black cat glaring at me. Drive it away, I am scared stiff!” The visitors were shocked no end.
Ramesh Aundhkar’s Unique Compositions in the Time of Pandemic – Tapas K Ray
The masks are visible now as my lines draw the patterns. Visible are the motifs.
Marco Polo Travels : 2020 – Amar Mitra
One of them had started for Venice, Italy. Marco Polo, the wanderer, on his way back to Venice, had arrived in a new country. So began this world-travelogue.
Parables of Pandemic – Romel Rahman
One day, a virus-infected patient came to the buffalo in the middle of the night. Hugging the beast, he started wailing. He begged the buffalo to take his disease.
Blue (The Night We Died of Plague) – Giuseppe A. Samonà
All dishevelled, she comes through the woods along the path joining her house to ours, brandishing a newspaper and shouting, cholera! cholera! And indeed the front page announces three or four cases in Naples, maybe even ten – along with mussels, vibrio bacteria, panic.
Mario Meléndez
A solid poetry, with an effective command of language; always disturbing and sometimes nightmarish, but not without humor, it places the Chilean poet Mario Meléndez on the front line of his generation.
Dotty LeMieux
Dotty LeMieux has had four chapbooks published. The newest, Henceforth I Ask Not Good Fortune, just released from Finishing Line Press.
Yan Li
Yan Li is identified with the Misty Poets; His poems have been translated into French, Italian,Spanish, English, Swedish, Korean and German.
Stories of Accidental Thought. Pandemic Chapter – Carla Faesler
Carla Faesler is a writer and experimental poet. She is the author of the novel, Formol, (Tusquets, 2014), considered the best book published in 2014 by the magazine La Tempestad.