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- ArticleBy Lisa Fishman
You’d think that something called “careening” would be able to roll with whatever comes along.
- PoemBy Norma ColeRock or tree, inflexion
of tree, wild asparagusand watercress, weeping
and leaving, parting andfleeing, atmosphere
as always the distance... - PoemBy Alice PettwayThe dry stubble of the field
wilts under the rain,
soft as jaw hair
under a hot towel. The summer
is a … - PoemBy Aaron ShurinAnd still one looks to the tree to paraphrase the sky, arbiter of wind and sun. The hills with their…
- PoemBy Paula BohinceForgive my trespass, I mistook for work a crown
of raspberries and custard. Thank you, tartlet, thank… - PoemBy Ann-Margaret LimEvery day is perfect, if
when you wake, you hear birds
in the garden, in the yard. Birds
up and down, ushering… - PoemBy Brittany PerhamWe take the N out to the turnaround.
The only thing to come now is the sea.
The ice plants make the pink… - PoemBy Xin QijiTranslated By Shangyang Fangto the tune “he xin lang: toasting the bridegroom”Now that I am old and those who crossed the mountains…
- PoemBy Xin Qiji甚矣吾衰矣。
怅平⽣、交游零落，只今余⼏！
⽩发空垂三千丈，⼀笑⼈间万事。
问何物、能令公喜？
我见青⼭多妩媚，料青⼭见我应如是。
情与貌，略相似。
⼀尊搔⾸东窗⾥。
想渊明、《停云》诗就，此时风味。
江左沉酣求名者… - PoemBy Omotara JamesWhen we meet at the holiday table, we take turns
and great pains not to remind each other
of our mutual… - PoemBy Kate PartridgeI don’t want to get emails from
the wolf people anymore, but
they know where I am—have known
precisely…