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Memory & Nostalgia

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  • Poem
    By Norma Cole
    the
    the
    the the
    the
    the night...
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineDear Sister Agnes,

    By Jacques J. Rancourt
              Can I still call you
                        Emily? Not long after
    we last saw each other, I too changed

              my name. Dropped …
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineLake Chateau

    By Dorothea Lasky
    I still feel the same
    As the day that I first met you
    Though softened by all of this time

    I still think…
  • 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

    poetry-magazineWreck

    By Stefania Gomez
    Firemen cut the car open like a cake but when
    they reached through the windshield to pull me out
    they …
  • 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…
  • Audio
    By Stefania Gomez
  • Poem
    By Nasser Rabah
    ،الثيابُ المهملةُ في الليلِ تخرجُ
    ،تَجولُ في الغرفِ الباردةِ
    ،ترتدي كلماتِ أصحابها
    ،تحبُ، تكرهُ، تص…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineNocturnal Spirits

    By Nasser Rabah
    Translated By Ammiel Alcalay, Emna Zghal & Khaled al-Hilli
    Discarded clothes come out at night,
    they roam around in cold rooms,
    wearing the words of their owners…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineBevy of Crows

    By Whitney Koo
    Being a woman of multiple bags, I may not have anything.
    When portability really means lack of capacity…
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