Category: Issue 27
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(JANUARY) by Hanna Riisager trans. Kristina Andersson Bicher
I see the subject allthe time in front of me, see all thesesmall rituals.How it lies on the sofa and waitsfor me to come.The wind pushes moirés of ice and snowagainst the windowpane. An undulating, pearl gray surface –silk bark.My brain’s pale tissues unfold in the room in a billowing mass.I’m floating under the roof, looking…
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THREE POEMS by Nadja Küchenmeister trans. Aimee Chor
at the base no one quite knew how late it waswhen it was too late: i came backa breeze took my hand, the courtyard recognized me, as always, without wakingi picked out the old names on the name platesbein, puhahn, henke, brumm, i let them dry no clothespins on the clotheslinewhere there was a puddle,…
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AROUND THE FIRE by Gloria Susana Esquivel trans. Joel Streicker
“En llamas será la canción”Briela Ojeda Everything was in flames. She felt a slight burning in her eyes and thought, for an instant, that the smoke choking the images on the TV had filtered into the room. She blinked, then turned her attention back to the newscast. Ten million hectares were burning uncontrollably. The world…
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INVITATION TO END by Faris Kuseyri trans. Patrick Sykes
A woman puts an orange in her husband’s pocketand her longing I saw they’re opening unmarked graves with warrantsand silence’s strength I saw truth bound, the papers lieand hate in the words I saw grace in the bazaar, conscience in exileand the feigned surprise I saw driven again to my pencil’s mercyand the invitation to…
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from YOU by Chantal Neveu trans. Erín Moure
first his breathing then his pupils I watch his mouth its furrows its swells slight circle of his irises the black hole a tube he sees me impulsion an implicit programmatics ascension the facades the borough remanence of Rio a yard a garden the staircase winding its gradations compelling the maples alongside the false acacias…