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    poetry-magazineAt the End of the Earth

    By Jidimajia
    Translated By Wang Ping
    After leaving a busy dock
    We come to a new railway station
    We chase time like this all our lives
    The journey…
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    poetry-magazine曼德拉岩画记

    By A’Er
    这一刻是沙漠从云端耸起
    沉下的是恒河之旅
    那是洗不去的光阴
    一个小时代的美好派对
    一支雪茄飘出的哈瓦那
    曾经还是左派的年月
    格瓦拉的伏特加扁酒壶
    塞进一张列侬和洋子的美颜照
    那时我们多么热爱和平
    其实…
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    poetry-magazine天涯海角

    By Jidimajia
    刚刚离开了繁忙的码头
    又来到一个陌生的车站
    一生中我们就这样追寻着时间
    或许是因为旅途被无数次的重复
    其实人类从来就没有一个所谓的终点
    可以告诉你，我是一个游牧民族的儿子
    我相信爱情和死亡是一种方式
    而这一切都只会…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineHereafter

    By Kevin Young
    Once, in winter, I was blessed
          by lightning, the plane
    sudden struck—the boom

    of it, the cabin lit …
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineRock Painting on the Mandela

    By A’Er
    Translated By Wang Ping
    It rises from the desert into clouds
    It sinks into the river of eternity
    Time can’t wash away
    Its short…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineTrucking

    By Sasha Pearl
    I’m in Shartlesville
    Eating air-chilled wings in the sleeper cab
    I took the contract because the devil…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineStreet Food

    By Daniel Halpern
    The redolence of rose and new road.
    The attar of grass, recently cut.
    The fish-whiff of anchovy.
    The spinning…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineBevy of Crows

    By Whitney Koo
    Being a woman of multiple bags, I may not have anything.
    When portability really means lack of capacity…
  • Poem

    75 ["Wake, butterfly"]

    By Bashō
    Translated By Lucien Stryk
    Wake, butterfly—
    it's late, we've miles
    to go together.
  • Poem

    The Rabbi’s Red Ink

    By Shereen Akhtar
    In our first house-let in London, she drew on the tablecloth to create
    a calligraphic feast. Our friends…
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