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  • Poem
    By Wen Gu
    黑色的岩石上,雨珠碎裂
    青色的岩石上,星星一滴一滴溅落
    一千年、一万年,古老的风在唱:
    “一万个、一千个,相似的夜晚”

    骆驼的背后,有历史的风暴升起
    山羊的唇角,留着沙葱花的清香
    别问我们祖先们的秘密
    闪电已经刻在…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazinebroken lyre

    By Asha Futterman
    my hands are still my hands
    like my grandfather’s hands
    are his hands and they
    are on the window
    attached…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineGrave-Digging

    By Rodney Jones
    It was July. I must have been sixteen or seventeen,
    And proud to be chosen for a grown man’s work,
    Hollowing…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineDear Time,

    By Danez Smith
    now married, i’m in you different, in love
    deeper, legally, under god and in front of my mama,

    i know …
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineThe Call

    By Ellen June Wright
    The caregiver calls to tell me about mother,
    but I know she hasn’t slept. The security videos
    of her restless…
  • Poem
    By Ellen June Wright
    When you wake from a troubled sleep,
         after you’ve used the bathroom, don’t go back.
    Walk down the hall…
  • Poem
    By Wen Gu
    Translated By Wang Ping
    Rain breaks on black rocks
    Stars fall, one by one, on blue stones
    A thousand years, ten thousand years…
  • Audio
    By Ellen June Wright
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineThe Death of the Book

    By Luke Allan
    1. This morning the nurse tested me for allergies. She said she’d test for “known allergies,” which …
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineEloquence

    By Georgio Russell
    Within this simple chapel, located near the navel
    of the little clinic, the walls are all the white
    of…
  • Poem
    By Jessie Leitzel
    The end of summer
    and our jalapeño plant

    is wilting, its stem brittle
    as the heat peels

    away from us,
    though…
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