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。
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。
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By Michael RobinsHere before the sun rises, I find it difficult to make the words, to lean
forward three years after your…From the magazine:Small Talk
By Michael RobinsI dreamed you called without reason, picking up where we left the
water months ago. Origins without …From the magazine:broken lyre
By Asha Futtermanmy hands are still my hands
like my grandfather’s hands
are his hands and they
are on the window
attached…From the magazine:Please
By Ye ZhouTranslated By Wang PingPlease bring a light
Into the grotto cave, please don’t forget
To bring a handful of barley.
Please plant…From the magazine:
From “First Light: 88 Frequencies” [“I feel/felt by”]
By CAConradI feel felt by another but I’malone in the roomFrom the magazine:汚れつちまつた悲しみに ......
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…From the magazine:The Death of the Book
By Luke Allan1. This morning the nurse tested me for allergies. She said she’d test for “known allergies,” which …From the magazine:
On This Bit of Soiled Sadness…
By Nakahara ChūyaTranslated By Jeffrey AnglesOn this bit of soiled sadness
The flurries fall again today
Through this bit of soiled sadness
The wind…From the magazine:Chicken for Breakfast
By Kazim AliA book led me to the particular performance of the cello suite
And watching the cellist play so tentatively…From the magazine:When Untouched
By Lauren RussellHammock dumping
you onto bruised
grasses, frayed
thoughts droop
sideways, hammering
morning. Slipper-
footed…From the magazine:Crossing
By Ross WhiteI’m not the first man to lose his father
slowly, not the first to wonder
when I walk in the room if the…From the magazine:Ah-gong’s Funeral
By Tiffany HsiehI was a forty-one-year-old rabbit
that year, which was said to be unlucky
for the rabbits to go face-to…From the magazine:Orfeo
By Dan Beachy-QuickI created more loss where I meant to make less.
Created more debt where I meant to make depth.
Created…From the magazine:⽊兰花·和孙公素别安陆
By Zhang Xian相离徒有相逢梦。门外马蹄尘已动。
怨歌留待醉时听，远⽬不堪空际送。
今宵风⽉知谁共。声咽琵琶槽上凤。
⼈⽣⽆物⽐多情，江⽔不深⼭不重。From the magazine:Departure
By Zhang XianTranslated By Shangyang Fangto the tune “mu lan hua: magnolia”
After tonight, what’s left of you is you
moving into my dream. Outside…From the magazine:Domestic Interior
By Shara McCallumPain enters through an open window
and you say it is the wind.
It marrows into beams, gutters
walls. Still…From the magazine:From “Underworlds”
By Kimberly Johnsoni
The last time I lost you, I had turned
To salt. The hospice nurses all assured
An easier passing…From the magazine:Voicemail
By Norla Cheemiss you calling me at work
leaving stupid jokes on my phone
like the one about the Arapaho, the Navajo…- By Malcolm TariqYou may find her behind
Rowan Oak, a shadow
of fortress where then now
you find no real entry place.