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  • Poem
    By Norma Cole
    words people energies
    somewhere in there
    that that punctuationrecovery my spoken
    moving never never
    play something else...
  • Poem
    By Magda Portal
    Translated By Kathleen Weaver
    Facing Life
    I take up this unbridled cry
    broad wave crashing on
    my hearts beachI HAVE NO PRECEDENT...
  • Poem
    By Norma Cole
    Take history
    Take powerAt no point sufficient
    Accident of memory...
  • Poem
    By Norma Cole
    Rock or tree, inflexion
    of tree, wild asparagusand watercress, weeping
    and leaving, parting andfleeing, atmosphere
    as always the distance...
  • Poem
    By Norma Cole
    measure how silence
    sits on the groundthe same rills, clay tablets,
    gravel and stones, frozenmoments measure displacement
    consequence the records of...
  • Poem
    By Norma Cole
    implicated garland of
    witnessesdevolution, foliage
    in red...
  • Poem
    By Norma Cole
    between intricate attention
    the spot through distress
    of the crowdconcrete dividers, streamers
    of ordinary empathy
    intention intentionally...
  • Poem
    By Norma Cole
    restricted extremities during thought flight
    sensitive documents: the market, the firelike weather balloons in gear
    or a plate glass window in the pavement...
  • Poem
    By Norma Cole
    Conditions in the moment
    conditions in the present moment
    conditions are melting in the present moment...
  • Poem
    By Norma Cole
    like lost knowledge
    a shovel, the secret hellothe soldiers, news from
    the heart of the meter...
  • Poem
    By Norma Cole
    salutations my child
    you in your heartheard the basics
    the basic first finger...
  • Poem
    By Norma Cole
    the
    the
    the the
    the
    the night...
  • Audio
    Poetry Off the Shelf
    Stephanie Burt on queer time, glass dildos, and making it up as you go. 
  • Poem
    By bruno darío
    Translated By Kit Schluter
    I swept my house and found another. In every corner was another smaller corner, which the dust mask …
  • Poem

    poetry-magazine曇天

    By Nakahara Chūya
       ある朝   僕は   空の   中に、
    黒い   旗が   はためくを   見た。
       はたはた   それは   はためいて   いたが、
    音は   きこえぬ   高きが   ゆえに。

       手繰り   下ろそうと   僕は   したが、
    綱も   なければ   それも   叶…
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