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Emotions

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  • Poem

    poetry-magazineSmall Talk

    By Michael Robins
    I dreamed you called without reason, picking up where we left the
    water months ago. Origins without …
  • 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-magazineHeaven

    By Jim Johnstone
    is just a garden, really.


    A plot of land where you might reach down
    to touch the snow

    and crystallize.


     …
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineMusic for Voice

    By Kim Ok
    Translated By Ryan Choi
    i

    Sonorous music for voice— I hear
    a short but elegiac,

     pained

    melody— for long discarded

    dreams of a simple…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazine성락

    By Kim Ok
    울려 나오는 악성의
    느리고도 짧은
    애닯은 곡조에
    나의 사라진 옛 꿈은
    그윽하게 살아
    내 가슴 아파라.

    설움 가득한 악성의
    빠르고도 더딘

    애닯은 곡조에
    뒤숭숭한 그 생각은
    고요하…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineHereafter

    By Kevin Young
    Once, in winter, I was blessed
          by lightning, the plane
    sudden struck—the boom

    of it, the cabin lit …
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineThinking of It

    By Michael Robins
    Here before the sun rises, I find it difficult to make the words, to lean
    forward three years after your…
  • Poem
    By Jim Cory
    What god does he
    pray to, swaying
    like that, muttering
    orange chords
    at the clouds
    drifting by
    inside his …
  • Poem
    By Frank X. Walker
    I learn today that mama,
    being property,
    was massa's investment. That taken all together,
    the only thing…
  • Poem
    By Nakahara Chūya
    汚れつちまつた悲しみに
    今日も小雪の降りかかる
    汚れつちまつた悲しみに
    今日も風さへ吹きすぎる

    汚れつちまつた悲しみは
    たとへば狐の革裘
    汚れつちまつた悲しみは
    小雪のかかつてちぢこまる

    汚れつ…
  • 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
    By Jacques J. Rancourt
    I dressed as a stag: headpiece
    of antlers, fabric flowers

    hot-glued to a harness, my ass
    hanging out of…
  • Poem
    By Nakahara Chūya
    Translated By Jeffrey Angles
    On this bit of soiled sadness
    The flurries fall again today
    Through this bit of soiled sadness
    The wind…
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