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taking their seats
on the night train? […]
All children are poets
until they stop reaching for
butterflies that are not there. Excerpt from “Tablets V” by Dunya Mikhail, excerpt
Let us gather flowers.
Let us bathe our hands
In the calm rivers,
And from them
Learn their calm.
Sunflowers eternally
Staring at the sun,
We will leave life
Tranquilly, not even
Regretting
Having lived. Ode I by Fernando Pessoa, translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa & Patricio Ferrari, excerpt
From the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York:
If a well is really deep, you can see a star down there even in the middle of a sunny day. Ivan’s Childhood
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In the mineral dark, this maze
and matrix map a funky elation,
architecture devised in slow
motion, where tendrils bend
toward one another, tip
to tip, diverge, tangle, gather
and by vibration improvise
both call and response. Root Prayer by Patrick Rosal, excerpt
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In the insomnia of forgotten drains,
in the sewers interrupted by the silence of sewage.
Not far from the puddles unable to keep a cloud,
lost eyes,
a broken ring,
or a trampled star. The Dead Angels by Rafael Alberti, translated from the Spanish by John Murillo, excerpt
“When you grow up, my son,
and read the volumes of Arabic poetry,
you will know that the word and the tear are sisters
and that the Arabic poem
is but a tear shed from the tips of the fingers” A Lesson in Drawing by Nizar Qabbani, translated from the Arabic by Rana Bitar, excerpt
All around in the low halls
hurricane lamps are being lit.
To look in the windows
you will have to crawl. The Barrens by Karen Solie, excerpt
Ignore the case
Of paradise:
A beast hiding
In a cave
Still feels
The sunless rain. Envoi by Aaron Fagan, excerpt
who are you? do I know you? because I do
that sometimes I put on my blue dress &
go to church & kneel when the priest says
but when it nears its finish & communion
comes it is bitter on my lips & I don’t want it
I lick it up anyway I hold in my burst heart
I say “yes I know you” I walk slowly home Kneeling by Francesca Kritikos, excerpt
On the beach at night alone,
As the old mother sways her to and fro singing her husky song,
As I watch the bright stars shining, I think a thought of the clef of the universes and of the future. On the Beach at Night Alone by Walt Whitman, excerpt