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From the magazine:how we survived: 爺爺’s pantoum (i)
By River 瑩瑩 Dandelion
you had to know the currents, & the sun
stay shallow to keep warm in the waters.
you had to believe you…
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: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 we survived: 爺爺’s pantoum (ii)
By River 瑩瑩 Dandelion
we wore watermelon husks to hide
lost cargo floating east to hong kong
water lilies & crickets our last…
From the magazine:Bharti Kher—Confess (2010)
By Rochelle Hurt
[if you marry your confession, you can live alone inside it. no priest behind the window. no wife or…
From the magazine:Jenny Holzer—DYING SHOULD BE AS EASY AS FALLING OFF A LOG (1978)
By Rochelle Hurt
[as jumping from a plane. easier—a bridge. as tripping on a shoelace. as blinking your eyes. as breathing…
From the magazine:Carolee Schneemann—Interior Scroll (1975)
By Rochelle Hurt
[all my exes agree i’m too sensitive. inside i’m keeping track of slights on one long receipt, a diaristic…
From the magazine:
I-765
By Hermelinda Hernandez Monjaras
From the magazine:Cherry
By Yi Li
I love cherries.
The fruit, juice, jam,
blossoms, prints on a summer
dress, in a black forest cake…
From the magazine:Malu Cycles/瑪璐循環
By Maxine Hong Kingston
Translated By Chun Yu
I pay.
In dream: Susie’s medical bill.
For real: Moana bar tab.

我付款。
夢中：蘇西的醫療費。
現實：莫阿娜酒吧賬。

Time I write …
From the magazine:
Mango Head
By Shara McCallum
Why yu always ask stupid question, ee?
The man call mango head because him head
shape like mango. What…
From the magazine:Untitled/無題
By John Whalen-Bridge
Translated By Chun Yu
The words of children
splash in grandmother’s mind
and ripple to now.

孩子的話兒
在祖母心中濺起
蕩漾至今。
From the magazine:
Rabbithole
By Chris Hoshnic

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In the truck at his funeral time catches up to me / beaks me into
opaque-ness / a cog in the…
From the magazine:
Shí łeeshch’iih béénáshniih, I remember ash
By Danielle Shandiin Emerson
łeeshch’iih
across shitáá’
on the inside
of shilátsíín
from the
beesh bii’ ko’í
in the corner
of the
hogan.
My…
From the magazine:
Dá’ák’eh ahooł’níi (To make a crop)
By Chris Hoshnic
Dá’ák’eh     ahooł’níi niłch’i doo   naadą́ą́.
Naadą́   niłch’i
Doo     Sodizin.
Niłchi     adiin             goo
Sodizin bee ’adoolnii…
From the magazine:Female Rain
By Doug Gonzalez
only I stood in the rain with wet skin. I could taste the dew though it had not yet found my lips. …
From the magazine:Shadow Pt. 2
By Jamie Natonabah
From the magazine:dáádílkał
By Chris Hoshnic
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Our house on the hill. They always say in Navajo -up there…
From the magazine:Lost Quails in an Easter Pastoral
By Hershman John
Last Easter, I gave my mother-in-law a large, brown, simple ceramic
Navajo water pot, shiny with pine…
From the magazine:Plan Wheel
By Doug Gonzalez

Can You Hope Remember Remobilize Reorganize Revitalize Rewrite Relearn Repair Return Can You Know…

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From the magazine:how we survived: 爺爺’s pantoum (i)

From the magazine:Beach

From the magazine:Diary

From the magazine:how we survived: 爺爺’s pantoum (ii)

From the magazine:Bharti Kher—Confess (2010)

From the magazine:Jenny Holzer—DYING SHOULD BE AS EASY AS FALLING OFF A LOG (1978)

From the magazine:Carolee Schneemann—Interior Scroll (1975)

From the magazine:
I-765

From the magazine:Cherry

From the magazine:Malu Cycles/瑪璐循環

From the magazine:
Mango Head

From the magazine:Untitled/無題

From the magazine:
Rabbithole

From the magazine:
Shí łeeshch’iih béénáshniih, I remember ash

From the magazine:
Dá’ák’eh ahooł’níi (To make a crop)

From the magazine:Female Rain

From the magazine:Shadow Pt. 2

From the magazine:dáádílkał

From the magazine:Lost Quails in an Easter Pastoral

From the magazine:Plan Wheel