April 2022

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Poem

Tablets VI

By Dunya Mikhail

When the sun is absent

the flower misses her...

Poem

I Ask That I Do Not Die

By Ilya Kaminsky

—but if I do

I want an open coffin

I am an American poet and therefore open

for business...

Poem

the face of the village littered with baskets of bronze shouldered by the young as they slowly trod along the new cement roads not a single child under the shade of a tree to wave their parents to eat from the fields

...

April 2022

From this Issue

Tablets VI

I Ask That I Do Not Die

From “North of the Earth”

Table of Contents

April 2022

From this Issue

p1Tablets VI

p1I Ask That I Do Not Die

p1From “North of the Earth”

Table of Contents

Tablets VI

I Ask That I Do Not Die

From “North of the Earth”