[MY GRANDFATHER WALKED IN THE SNOW] by Cleo Qian

/ / ISSUE 25


           after Cathy Linh Che 

My grandfather walked in the snow
With his green jacket
& plastic bag

On the balcony we built
a short snowman
with a cold carrot

My grandfather had a very thick
head of hair
Long eyebrows…bright eyes

He told us stories
He made us toast
He fought in the war
He knew the word “MONSTER”
And also  “HELLO, EAT”

What kind of man was he
A short man
With a long walk
Good at walking
He could walk and wait
for a long time

What kind of man was he 
He had brown hands
A dark mole
A deaf ear
He fought in the war 
He wrote stories
Smoked cigarettes
Played solitaire
He had a green jacket

What kind of man was he
He had a secret family
He had a sharp and surreptitious 
brain

What kind of man was he
Dead now
A gone man

What kind of man was he
He walked in the street below
To fill his plastic bag with snow

ISSUE 25
POEMS

EN ROUTE by Suphil Lee Park

TWO POEMS by Alexandra Teague

GHAZAL NO. 2 by M. Cynthia Cheung

[MY GRANDFATHER WALKED IN THE SNOW] by Cleo Qian

IN THE END, THE ALEFS CURL by Iqra Khan

THREE POEMS by Mónica Gomery

GEOMETRY by Karen Kevorkian

from PSALMS OF LAMENT FOR DIVINE IMPERATIVES by Jennifer Metsker

TWO POEMS by Jimin Seo

THE PLEASURE IS IN THE WORK by Stella Hayes

WHAT ELSE COULD I HAVE DONE by Mikael de Lara Co

FICTION

MY DINNER THEATRE WITH ANDRÉ by Christopher Hebert

KHOSHBAKHTAM by Kent Kosack

TRANSLATION

from RED MELANCHOLIA by Helena Boberg trans. Johannes Goransson (from Swedish)

AND WHAT HAPPENS IF I WANT TO NAME EVERYTHING?, ASKS THE FEMALE DISCIPLE by Mayra Santos-Febres trans. Seth Michelson (from Spanish) 

THREE POEMS by Bronka Nowicka trans. Katarzyna Szuster (from Polish)

[A POEM] by Beatriz Miralles de Imperial trans. Layla Benitez-James (from Spanish)

[UNTITLED 1] by Vladislav Hristov trans. Katarina Stoykova (from Bulgarian) 

FROM NORTH by Baek Sok trans. Jack Jung (from Korean)

WHEN OTHER PEOPLE ARE WRITING POEMS by Oh Kyu-won trans. Jack Jung (from Korean)

TWO POEMS by Ashraf Zhagal trans. Ghada Mourad

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