November 2024
Cover Artist: Andrea Trabucco-CamposHarryette MullenWhen we go together, what is the simple form we make?
- Lara Mimosa Montes
- Jayne Cortez
- Andrea Cohen
- Othuke Umukoro
- Darius Atefat-Peckham
From this Issue
Poem
By Jane Hirshfield
My life asks me a question.
I suggest a better question,
one I like more the sound of,
with more pleasing grammar.
My life humors me.
My life asks me that.
I don’t know an answer.
Life is stubborn and clever.
Life says: you must choose.
I can’t choose.
I leave the question.
I go into the garden and weed.
My life weeds with…
I suggest a better question,
one I like more the sound of,
with more pleasing grammar.
My life humors me.
My life asks me that.
I don’t know an answer.
Life is stubborn and clever.
Life says: you must choose.
I can’t choose.
I leave the question.
I go into the garden and weed.
My life weeds with…
Poem
By Rüştü Onur
Translated By Ulaş Özgün & Hüseyin Alhas
A tree and a fruit,
And this golden lip
On the coral cups
—laughter ...
A step song
—and another.
The fruit of tranquility,
And the secret of becoming
Fill up this bowl.
Stop this pretense
This is a moment of becoming:
An approximation to God ...
Translated from the Turkish
And this golden lip
On the coral cups
—laughter ...
A step song
—and another.
The fruit of tranquility,
And the secret of becoming
Fill up this bowl.
Stop this pretense
This is a moment of becoming:
An approximation to God ...
Translated from the Turkish
Poem
By Adam Wolfond
Openings
atmosphere
the meanings
like needing air.
Has the camera
a way to language
time? Of course.
So does music.
So inside of
the leaving of
neurotypical language
is the movements
and the leaving of living
meaningful relations
that can change
some persons to think
about plants and the paces
of which the feeling thinking…
atmosphere
the meanings
like needing air.
Has the camera
a way to language
time? Of course.
So does music.
So inside of
the leaving of
neurotypical language
is the movements
and the leaving of living
meaningful relations
that can change
some persons to think
about plants and the paces
of which the feeling thinking…
Table of Contents
POEMS
- Adrian Matejka
- Jane Hirshfield
- Rüştü Onur
- Hüseyin Alhas, Ulaş Özgün
- Adam Wolfond
- Molly Fisk
- Mag Gabbert
- Annette C. Boehm
- Othuke Umukoro
- Josh English
- Darius Atefat-Peckham
- Triin Paja
- Noelani Piters
- Lara Mimosa Montes
- Adedayo Agarau
- Rose Ausländer
- Carlie Hoffman
- Mairead Small Staid
- Anders Carlson-Wee
- Harryette Mullen
JAYNE CORTEZ: I IMITATE NO ONE
HARD FEELINGS
- Randall Mann
- Andrea Cohen
- Graham Foust
CONTRIBUTORS
- Adedayo Agarau
- Hüseyin Alhas
- Darius Atefat-Peckham
- Rose Ausländer
- Annette C. Boehm
- Anders Carlson-Wee
- Andrea Cohen
- Jayne Cortez
- Josh English
- Molly Fisk
- Graham Foust
- Mag Gabbert
- Jane Hirshfield
- Carlie Hoffman
- Randall Mann
- Adrian Matejka
- Lara Mimosa Montes
- Harryette Mullen
- Rüştü Onur
- Triin Paja
- Noelani Piters
- Mairead Small Staid
- Othuke Umukoro
- Adam Wolfond
- Ulaş Özgün
- Sapphire