By Frank X Walker
Humiliate her mother at every checkpoint.
Replace the Second Surah with air raids and shelling.
Reduce…
Replace the Second Surah with air raids and shelling.
Reduce…
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- By Frank X WalkerIt’s complicated.
Me and the South. Me,
and the land, and the trees.
Whose ever woods these are
are full… - By Frank X WalkerWhen we first left Kentucke
the trees had commenced to dressing up
the fall harvest an the garden
was already… - By Darrel Alejandro HolnesI speak in the fold of the map—
creased between empire and salt.
Mother braided three names into my … - By Cornelius EadyYou have to imagine it:
Who said you were too dark/too
Large? Too queer/too loud?
Who said you were too… - By Terrance HayesYou are pursuing a feeling like the dust
In the voice of Bob Kaufman plus the mud
Of the most fertile… - By Lesyk PanasiukTranslated By Katie Farris & Ilya KaminskyO the accordion of a municipal bus!
your insides
are expanding with our silence which
we take from … - By Lesyk PanasiukTranslated By Katie Farris & Ilya KaminskyA Russian citizen
took to the streets
with a sign that read war.
The Russian police
shoved him into… - By Lesyk PanasiukTranslated By Katie Farris & Ilya KaminskyOld bicycles stubbornly pull sticks into their wheels,
pull everything into their mouths
like infants… - By Khadijah QueenA PBS documentary tells me
two thousand years ago in Babylon
astronomers notched eighteen years of eclipse… - By Nur TurkmaniA jackal returns to the border town of Aitaroun,
after a year of phosphorus bombs. June, wasn’t it,
years… - By Shlagha BorahSay a scene is being set—unrest, uprising. Teargas, gunshots, fire, smoke. So much smoke. University…
- By Terrance HayesZora Neal Hurston spent time
in the low country
interviewing & filming
kids on corners & folk at work,
but… - By Terrance HayesThe country with the face of its mother
tattooed across its chest searched
for connection like the coiler… - By Lesyk PanasiukАкордеоне тролейбуса
твої міхи повні
нашого мовчання
що веземо з дому на роботу
з роботи додому
Мо… - By Lesyk PanasiukОдин російський громадянин
вийшов на вулицю
з плакатом война
російські міліціонери
запакували його в автозак
Інші росіяни
уважно спостерігали за цим
і знімали все на телефони
Одна російська громадянка
вийшла на вулицю
з плакатом мир
російські міліціонери
запакували її в автозак
Інші росіяни
почали ставати в чергу до автозака
з плакатами й без
Один російський солдат
почав читати роман
одного російського бороданя
далі обкладинки не пішов
бо й так усе ясно
читати між рядків
його навчили ще в школі - By Lesyk PanasiukСтарі велосипеди вперто приносять
палки в колесах своїм господарям
досі тягнуть усе до рота
як малюки щ… From “People Who Look Like You” [“The tall white man joins a white affinity group with his cousins”]
By Lisa LowThe tall white man joins a white affinity group with his cousins, even the one who questioned the group…- By Lisa LowA tall white man beside you on a hike, a tall white man eating ice cream beside you, the white man who…
- By E. Ethelbert Millergaza at daybreak
dogs sniff among the ruins
the graves are multiplying