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Sorrow & Grieving

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  • 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

    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

    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-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
  • 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-magazineChicken for Breakfast

    By Kazim Ali
    A book led me to the particular performance of the cello suite

    And watching the cellist play so tentatively…
  • 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…
  • 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

    poetry-magazineWhen Untouched

    By Lauren Russell
    Hammock dumping
    you onto bruised
    grasses, frayed
    thoughts droop
    sideways, hammering
    morning. Slipper-
    footed…
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