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The Story of a Stone
By Liang Ping
Translated By Wang Ping
Naked is a good word
That must not be desecrated.
The heart doesn’t hide dirt,
So it can beat free till…
From the magazine:Diary
By Stanley Plumly
The euphemism is “infusion” when confusion is what happens, and depends on no time in particular especially…
From the magazine:How to Love Your Mother at 98
By Ellen June Wright
When you wake from a troubled sleep,
after you’ve used the bathroom, don’t go back.
Walk down the hall…
From the magazine:The Call
By Ellen June Wright
The caregiver calls to tell me about mother,
but I know she hasn’t slept. The security videos
of her restless…
From the magazine:Throwing Them Away
By J. Allyn Rosser
smiling at far end of table with friends I don’t know

newly wedded NYC looking down

taking turns holding…
From the magazine:Grave-Digging
By Rodney Jones
It was July. I must have been sixteen or seventeen,
And proud to be chosen for a grown man’s work,
Hollowing…
From the magazine:Heaven
By Jim Johnstone
is just a garden, really.

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

and crystallize.

…
From the magazine:Operation 2020
By Yvanna Vien Tica
The cafe buzzes with so many voices it plugs my ears with the artillery of human noise. Man Behind Me…
- Living
- The Body
From the magazine:Night Class
By Bruce Bond
We would only get so far,
given the casualties
buried in each point of view.
This one, this one, this…
From the magazine:broken 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…
From the magazine:Small Talk
By Michael Robins
I dreamed you called without reason, picking up where we left the
water months ago. Origins without …
From the magazine:Thinking 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…
From the magazine:Age at the Beginning of Knowing
By Joanna Klink
Woken again, this time by wings
scraping the air to pitch the warbler’s
heft from its tree. Its perch…
From the magazine:Beach
By Stanley Plumly
The end, I think, will be a little like looking down as far as I can see to where the wind has kicked…
From the magazine:天涯海角
By Jidimajia
刚刚离开了繁忙的码头
又来到一个陌生的车站
一生中我们就这样追寻着时间
或许是因为旅途被无数次的重复
其实人类从来就没有一个所谓的终点
可以告诉你，我是一个游牧民族的儿子
我相信爱情和死亡是一种方式
而这一切都只会…
From the magazine:石头记
By Liang Ping
裸露是很美好的词，
不能亵渎。只有心不藏污，
才能至死不渝地坦荡。
我喜欢石头，包括它的裂缝，
那些不流血的伤口。
石头无论在陆地还是海洋，
无论被抬举还是被抛弃，
都在用身体抵抗强加给它的表情，
即使伤痕累累。
我的…
From the 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。
From the magazine:At the End of the Earth
By Jidimajia
Translated By Wang Ping
After leaving a busy dock
We come to a new railway station
We chase time like this all our lives
The journey…
From the magazine:Please
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…
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By Norma Cole
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