A Spirit Mystified Within Its Own Labyrinth— Pedro Licona
Translated from the Spanish by James Storbakken Ahead, a long line of wayward shadowsAnd the house with all the lights on:A ghost haunts this place.Nobody is breathing in the house. And someone is floating within the…...
Dreamless Nights & Other Poems— Rajathi Salma
Translated from the Tamil by Deepalakshmi J Dreamless Nights The nights are getting barren,difficult to tolerate for more than a few days or a weekThe heart craves a memory, good or bad; to rejoice or…...
Realization & Other Poems— Shrikant Verma
Translated from the Hindi by Purbasha Roy Realization Far in that dark, there's something that clangsmaybe, it is the peepal. There, on the river shores, someone sleepsmaybe, it is a journey. Some lamp child wakes night…...
Five Bulgarian Poems by Blagovesta Pugyova
Translated from the Bulgarian by Eireene Nealand The Waterbearer The waterbearer walked by unnoticedbecause no one saw beyond their own water. In the new era, people lived in aquariumsProtected from one another, and from warthey sold…...
Loneliness— A German Poem by Martin Heidegger
Translated from the German by Eric v.d. Luft Loneliness Dull green light swims around the books,Outside, angels spread shrouds.It's snowing. Bustling in the furnace, a buzzing, a crackling,Tick-tock clock sleeps. Winds whisper.It's snowing. Haggard shapes that…...
Three poems from Martial (I:1, VI:60 and X:35)
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Ogoni Oil & Other Poems— Bura-Bari Nwilo
Self-translated from the Ogoni by Bura-Bari Nwilo Ogoni Oil Ogoni Oil has a name.Its name is blood.The blood is fiercely hot.The blood flows like a river,the blood of infants and adults,of the rich and…...
Three Poems by Valerio Grutt
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Of a Clandenstine Pen— Vahé Godel
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