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  • Poem

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    The Underground Beach

    By Dmitry Blizniuk
    Translated By Sergey Gerasimov
    apartments are crumbling in the explosions
    like rotten tree stumps.
    automobiles are burning like fluff…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineThe Bomb Shelter

    By Dmitry Blizniuk
    Translated By Sergey Gerasimov
    the basement. the remotest corner and an old man there
    is curled into a thorny billiard ball.
    the elbows…
  • Poem
    By Asha Futterman
    my job used to be teaching a machine
    to recognize complaints filed against police officers
    that contained…
  • Poem
    By Dmitry Blizniuk
    квартири кришаться під вибухами
    як трухляві пні.
    автівки згорають немов тополиний пух.
    тиша здувається
    і…
  • Poem
    By Dmitry Blizniuk
    підвал. дальній кут і там старий
    згорнутий у колючу більярдну кулю.
    лікті й коліна випирають крізь …
  • 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-magazine圪料街

    By Yuan Xin
    一条小巷道,长220米,宽6.3米。
    26年前的早晨,席力图召西侧,
    骑着单车走过;10年前元宵节的夜晚,步行而过。
    “圪料街”遗址,瓦屋三间,坍圮的砖坯墙,
    立在大街正中,柏油马路到这里截断。
    墙砖摇摇欲坠,…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazine曼德拉岩画记

    By A’Er
    这一刻是沙漠从云端耸起
    沉下的是恒河之旅
    那是洗不去的光阴
    一个小时代的美好派对
    一支雪茄飘出的哈瓦那
    曾经还是左派的年月
    格瓦拉的伏特加扁酒壶
    塞进一张列侬和洋子的美颜照
    那时我们多么热爱和平
    其实…
  • 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…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineGeliao Street

    By Yuan Xin
    Translated By Wang Ping
    A little lane, 220 meters long, 6.3 meters wide.
    Twenty-six years ago, I biked past the west side of …
  • Poem
    By A’Er
    Translated By Wang Ping
    It rises from the desert into clouds
    It sinks into the river of eternity
    Time can’t wash away
    Its short…
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