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poetry-magazineThere Is the EndlessnessBy Michael Bazzettof time, of course, sliced inwardly;no matter how brief the moment,halve it again, and the endlessness… Related Audio LivingYouthTime & Brevity
poetry-magazineLittle PalmBy Lesyk PanasiukTranslated By Katie Farris & Ilya KaminskyPretend you are a potato& hide in a sackpeek at the earth through a holewhile they are carrying youfrom the garden to the cellar...Social CommentariesLivingYouthTime & Brevity
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poetry-magazineAn HourBy Bianca StoneWhat can you really do in it?Condense the metaphor further?Glimpse God beyond the atom?It isn’t a question… Related Audio The MindDoubt & ContemplationTime & Brevity
poetry-magazineNew WordBy Stanley MossA single word firstlast deserves to bea word in life’s dictionary. Remember,the firstlast. He’s first…Time & BrevityArts & SciencesLanguage & Linguistics
poetry-magazineTwo Women on the Shore, 1898By Sara Elkamel I am pleased I will soon die and with me the pressing need to make a terrible, terribly poignant film… Related Audio LivingDeathTime & BrevityArts & SciencesPhotography & FilmTypes/ModesProse Poem
poetry-magazineFake Islands IIIBy Omar Musa I pestle sea rice on the shore, mix with shipwreck’s pitch. Black damper, sun-baked. This fickle… Related Audio NatureLandscapes & PastoralsSocial CommentariesThe MindDoubt & ContemplationTime & Brevity
poetry-magazineМаленька долоняBy Lesyk Panasiuk i Вдавати що ти картопля ховатися в мішок дивитися на світ крізь дірочку доки тебе несуть із город… Related Audio Social CommentariesLivingYouthTime & Brevity
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poetry-magazineLook at a River, ElisaBy Elisa GabbertLook at a painting of sky. Look a long time and notice one thing.How someone’s wet eye stares backlike… Related Audio LivingDeathThe MindDoubt & ContemplationTime & Brevity
poetry-magazineBallad of SalthillBy Lindsay Turner Monday and it starts out mobile Monday you can picture “health” the picture is a stucco villa shining… Related Audio Social CommentariesLivingTime & BrevityVerse FormsBallad
poetry-magazineGoing HomeBy Myles C. Poydras an arrangement of trained plucks & then a full-palmed flood of contented ones opens into a siren that…The MindTime & Brevity
poetry-magazineDancing to the HoursBy Myles C. Poydras i touched my feet in pattern to a sound and steady floor, creating more of myself in suspended leaps…Time & BrevityArts & SciencesTheater & Dance
poetry-magazineSome Words to the Close and Holy DarknessBy Tishani Doshi Like most people, I have not known what to do with the stones handed to me. I fold newspapers into … Related Audio The MindDoubt & ContemplationMemory & NostalgiaTime & Brevity
poetry-magazineThe Swan, No. 6 (Hilma af Klint)By Victoria Chang Two swans turn into four swans. As if each swan yearned for time but time just multiplied into other… Related Audio NatureThe BodyTime & BrevityRelationshipsFamily & AncestorsTypes/ModesProse Poem
poetry-magazineSnake, with My NameBy Nay Thit Before I was born, my mother says, there was another boy. My brother. One day, half-asleep during lunch… Related Audio LivingDeathSorrow & GrievingTime & BrevityRelationshipsFamily & AncestorsTypes/ModesProse PoemGrief + 2 more
poetry-magazineThe Dream IncarnateBy Nay Thit When the dreamer dies, the dream begins searching for someone else—someone who might take it in and… Related Audio ReligionThe SpiritualThe MindTime & BrevityTypes/ModesProse Poem
poetry-magazineDefinitely Not a Trap DoorBy Anna Journey It came with the East Hollywood rental place: that novelty polypropylene doormat screen-printed in… Related Audio The MindDoubt & ContemplationMemory & NostalgiaTime & BrevityRelationships