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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:曼德拉岩画记
By A’Er
这一刻是沙漠从云端耸起
沉下的是恒河之旅
那是洗不去的光阴
一个小时代的美好派对
一支雪茄飘出的哈瓦那
曾经还是左派的年月
格瓦拉的伏特加扁酒壶
塞进一张列侬和洋子的美颜照
那时我们多么热爱和平
其实…
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:Hereafter
By Kevin Young
Once, in winter, I was blessed
by lightning, the plane
sudden struck—the boom

of it, the cabin lit …
From the magazine:Rock Painting on the Mandela
By A’Er
Translated By Wang Ping
It rises from the desert into clouds
It sinks into the river of eternity
Time can’t wash away
Its short…
From the magazine:Street Food
By Daniel Halpern
The redolence of rose and new road.
The attar of grass, recently cut.
The fish-whiff of anchovy.
The spinning…
From the magazine:Trucking
By Sasha Pearl
I’m in Shartlesville
Eating air-chilled wings in the sleeper cab
I took the contract because the devil…
From the magazine:Bevy of Crows
By Whitney Koo
Being a woman of multiple bags, I may not have anything.
When portability really means lack of capacity…
From the magazine:
A Lonely Navajo Studies Under the City of Spires
By Hershman John
Dear young Deer Spring and Towering Houses
Follow a Diné elder down a rabbit hole:

My Pembroke crest…
Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came
By Robert Browning
1.My first thought was, he lied in every word,
That hoary cripple, with malicious eye
Askance to watch…
75 ["Wake, butterfly"]
By Bashō
Translated By Lucien Stryk
Wake, butterfly—
it's late, we've miles
to go together.
The Rabbi’s Red Ink
By Shereen Akhtar
In our first house-let in London, she drew on the tablecloth to create
a calligraphic feast. Our friends…
From the magazine:Rain Song
By Ide Amari Thompson
so beautiful, it hurt
to listen when your rain
what fall, drop, fresh-
water. drawn as the day come
…
exodus hong kong
By Xiao Yue Shan
1
listen carefully—there is land or there is water,
and a time where
you may mistake one for another.
there…
Restless
By Li-Young Lee
I can hear in your voice
you were born in one country
and will die in another, and where you live is where…
From the magazine:
Is This My Last Ferry Trip?
By Martha Silano
Is this the last time I’ll admire the guys
in their neon-yellow slickers, guiding us
to our parking spots…
From the magazine:An Improvement in Stairs
By Mairead Small Staid
Through the oculus of the bus terminal at Boston’s South Station, light falls
for a hundred feet. A …
From the magazine:Yolculuk
By Rüştü Onur
Ne evim var Tanrım ne bahçem
Ne okyanusta kayığım
Başım ananas kokan bulutlarda
Ananas kokan sularda…
From the magazine:Fremde
By Rose Ausländer
Unser Schiff
ohne Fahne
gehört keinem Land
kommt nicht an

Wasserbürger
wir reisen
in den Tag
in die…
From the magazine:Strangers
By Rose Ausländer
Translated By Carlie Hoffman
Our ship
without flag
belongs to no country
never arrives

water citizens
we travel
day and night

…

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From the magazine:曼德拉岩画记

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A Lonely Navajo Studies Under the City of Spires

From the magazine:Rain Song

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Is This My Last Ferry Trip?

From the magazine:An Improvement in Stairs

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From the magazine:Fremde

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