A Metonymy For Life— Debarati Sen
Luminescent sobriquets,nuances and innuendos,Oleander dreams,a morsel of leftover wordsdecoding syntax and semantics!Taxonomy of hysteria,transferred epithets,shifted proxemicsblurring the gap between space and dimension.Peeping from behind translucent balladsare hurricane rhymestrying to carve a nichewithin a heartfelt epistle.Noctilucent clouds…...
Five Poems by Hassan Wahbi
Translated from the French by Patrick Williamson These poems originally appeared in French in Eloge de l'Imperfection (ed. Al Manar, Paris, 2012) and have been translated with the permission of the publisher. 1. Sometimes at the…...
No Word Will Be Comforting Here & Other Poems— Desamangalam Ramakrishnan
Translated from the Malayalam by K.M. Ajir Kutty No word will be comforting here There is no distance between Dadri and meThere is no distance between the Ahmad of there and meIt was only yesterday that…...
Apple Cinnamon and Other Poems— Mercury-Marvin Sunderland
Apple Cinnamon i packedone bowltook the lighter& lit took a deep breath & exhaledthrough my nose then eyedthe partially-burntdollar-cost jointresting in light ashes of the dollar store ashtray the resting thumb lighterwith the geometric illustrationof…...
Every Poet’s Fate Is Sealed By A Stroke Of Their Pen by küçük İskender
From his initial years, küçük İskender was hailed as a poet who, by rebelling against the settled norms and forms of poetry, disregarded the boundaries that traditionally mark off different genres of writing. The poem published…...
Sunoco Church and Other Poems— Morgan Boyer
Sunoco Church Fuel gauge empty, fiery words filling the backseat:It's time for a pitstop.Just like church,no one comes to a Sunocobecause they want to.It’s a place filled with miserable, empty peopletrying to evade eye contactwith other…...
Instead of Turtles All the Way Down and Other Poems— Ace Boggess
Instead of Turtles All the Way Down Perhaps the world rests in an ambulancewithin an ambulance inside another, and so on,each moving from crime scene or accidentthrough an abysmal citythat might be a bolt…...
Between Us— A Poem by Indrani Tuli
Between Us... We were at the picnic spot, near the rivulet,Everyone was busy, talking about his pet.The tummy was full, now journey back to school..."No one makes a fuss, go and board the bus!"The…...
Sand Worm and Other Poems— Sambhunath Chattopadhyay
Five poems of Sambhunath Chattopadhyay, translated from Bengali by Kingshuk Sarkar...