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Friends & Enemies

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  • Poem

    poetry-magazine贺新郎

    By Xin Qiji
    甚矣吾衰矣。
    怅平⽣、交游零落,只今余⼏!
    ⽩发空垂三千丈,⼀笑⼈间万事。
    问何物、能令公喜?
    我见青⼭多妩媚,料青⼭见我应如是。
    情与貌,略相似。

    ⼀尊搔⾸东窗⾥。
    想渊明、《停云》诗就,此时风味。
    江左沉酣求名者…
  • Poem
    By Xin Qiji
    Translated By Shangyang Fang
    to the tune “he xin lang: toasting the bridegroom”Now that I am old and those who crossed the mountains…
  • Poem
    By Zach Czaia
    I'm sorry it wasn't till the end of the year
    that I asked you to write about yourselves. You filled pages…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineGirl Blood Ritual Two

    By Amelia Loeffler
    You might be wondering how I got here:
    red handed, pants down, under the bleachers
    by the football field…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineGirl Blood Ritual One

    By Amelia Loeffler
              In kindergarten, I find myself
                          sitting cross-legged on the playground,
                                      having a nosebleed. Steady,
                                                  …
  • Poem

    poetry-magazine

    Poem for Friends

    By Matthew Rohrer
    On someone else’s estate
    running through it to avoid
    the outdoor wedding there is a grave
    in a little copse of trees
    so panting  we hide out there

    How beautiful to lie down
    not to be the dead ones there
    whose eye sockets are filled with dirt
    nothing...
  • Poem
    By Sarah Ruhl
    Death no wild thing
    and you a boy,
    Max.

    One night in your room
    (or body)
    a forest grew

    and the walls
    (or cells) became
    transparent

    because brightness
    invites
    transparency, I guess.

    Then a little boat
    to hospital smells.
    Doctors called

    the forest cancer,
    not obscuring leaves.
    And you a boy.

    You say:
    “Why can’t people use the word
    courage

    instead...
  • Poem
    By Helene Achanzar
    I wish I had hiked the frozen hill tonight 
    for reception, called to tell you I had a good time 

    hearing the two Somali cab drivers laughing 
    near an avalanche of on-sale oranges.  

    I played a prince in absolute awe 
    as the orchestra soared....
  • Article
    By Joe Carrick-Varty

    He should be here to do the lifetime of things he still had left to do, one of them being to bring his incredible book into the world, to see Adam.

  • Poem
    By Haki R. Madhubuti
    super-cool
    ultrablack
    a tan/purple
    had a beautiful shade.

    he had a double-natural
    that wd put the sisters to shame.
    & his beads were imported sea shells
         (from some blk/country i never heard of)
    he was triple-hip.

    his tikis were hand carved
    out of ivory
    & came express from the...
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