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From the magazine:We 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 …
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:我们如此确信自己的灵魂
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…
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: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…
From the magazine:Eloquence
By Georgio Russell
Within this simple chapel, located near the navel
of the little clinic, the walls are all the white
of…
From the magazine:Dear 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 …
From the magazine:The Closet Weeper
By Mitchell Glazier
Stiletto melon collies, a tinsel mystic streaks our homeplace.

Lantern flies triple from the sleeping…
From the magazine:Work Ethic
By Heidi Williamson
You’re fifteen and nowhere in a town on the edge of pitiful lands stripped of fruit. The burger van’…
From the magazine:
Text/ile II
By Mercedes Lucero

dear mary metonym of mine to mind *mary *mari *mare *mere Magdalene or mother not as Abuelita dreams…
From the magazine:
غيابٌ مبكر
By Nasser Rabah
،لم يكن الوقتُ كافياً لتعلّمِ العزف مثل خطاكِ وهي تصعدُ درجَ البيت
،أو الغناءِ المقفى وأنت تغسلين ا…
From the magazine:Early Absence
By Nasser Rabah
Translated By Ammiel Alcalay, Emna Zghal & Khaled al-Hilli
Not enough time to learn how to play an instrument that
sounds like your steps climbing the stairs at…
From the magazine:
These Headphones Should Be Free
By Kashawn Taylor
I walk down a dim hall, and appreciate the coruscating layer of wax on the floor(how I could sleep there…
From the magazine:
Rabbithole
By Chris Hoshnic

xxx
In the truck at his funeral time catches up to me / beaks me into
opaque-ness / a cog in the…
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:Tséyaaniichii
By Jamie Ayze
Ats’iist’in shighan
            Baa hooghan
Shił hodiik’aad
            ‘Àdineeshtįįł bee
Sodadilzin
            ‘Aanii t’áá
                        ‘Aanii t’áá…
From the magazine:Rehoboth
By Jamie Ayze
Translated By Jamie Ayze
Skeleton house
            Church
I am homesick
            I am teaching myself
To pray
            It is true
                        It is true
                                    It is true.

Translated…
From the magazine:
sǫ’
By Manny Loley
chahóółhxeel
sǫ’ bitsádinidiin
nahookǫs bikǫ’
binaago deikaah
sǫ’ binahjį’
hane’ náás oot’ih
From the magazine:star poem
By Manny Loley
Translated By Manny Loley
night drapes
stars emit light
around the north star-fire
stars journey
in their wake
stories extend…

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From the magazine:We Believe in Our Soul

From the magazine:叮嘱

From the magazine:我们如此确信自己的灵魂

From the magazine:Heaven

From the magazine:Please

From the magazine:Eloquence

From the magazine:Dear Sister Agnes,

From the magazine:The Closet Weeper

From the magazine:Work Ethic

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Text/ile II

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غيابٌ مبكر

From the magazine:Early Absence

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These Headphones Should Be Free

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Rabbithole

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Dá’ák’eh ahooł’níi (To make a crop)

From the magazine:Female Rain

From the magazine:Tséyaaniichii

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sǫ’

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