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  • Poem

    poetry-magazineWe Believe in Our Soul

    By Xiwa
    Translated By Wang Ping
    We believe in our soul
    More so than our visible, touchable flesh
    We believe in our soul, as if we had …
  • Poem

    poetry-magazine叮嘱

    By Ye Zhou
    将一盏灯送进

    石窟,也别忘了
    带一把青稞。

    将一棵菩提
    栽上壁画,也别忘了
    供一碗净水。

    将一尊佛像请进
    敦煌,一定别忘了
    养一对羔羊。

    菩萨不会走。
    可万一走了,这些
    就是我们疼痛的拌料。
  • Poem
    By Xiwa
    我们如此确信自己的灵魂
    比我们看得见,摸得着的肉体
    更为确信,仿佛我们真的见过她
    亲手抚摸过她,弯下身来为她洗过脚
    在夜间闻过她腋窝里的汗味
    在清晨听过她的哈欠声与唇语
    我们如此确信我们的灵魂
    确信她比我们的肉体更…
  • 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-magazinePlease

    By Ye Zhou
    Translated By Wang Ping
    Please bring a light

    Into the grotto cave, please don’t forget
    To bring a handful of barley.

    Please plant…
  • Audio
    By Ye Zhou
  • Audio
    Poetry Off the Shelf
    Philip Hoare on William Blake, revolution, and swimming in the dark.
  • 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

    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-magazineThe Closet Weeper

    By Mitchell Glazier
    Stiletto melon collies, a tinsel mystic streaks our homeplace.

    Lantern flies triple from the sleeping…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineWork Ethic

    By Heidi Williamson
    You’re fifteen and nowhere in a town on the edge of pitiful lands stripped of fruit. The burger van’…
  • Poem
    By Kashawn Taylor
    I walk down a dim hall, and appreciate the coruscating layer of wax on the floor(how I could sleep there…
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