Photo: Daniel SimonEgretThe bird was just searchingfor food not metaphors –or taking rest from a day’s flightIt was dusk after all and its ancestorswho might have crossed the MiddlePassage, crossed th…
Poetry
Satiro della Valle, Capitoline Museums, RomeЭти бездонные ночи в июлеЭти бездонные ночи в июле, О!Ты вопрошаешь: — Меня обманули?…
Anila Quayyum Agha, Alahambra Nights (2016), acrylic and halogen bulb, 30” x 27” x 30” / Courtesy of the artistQasida of the Bridge of TeacupsThe soul cleaves into two somewhere alo…
Photo: Tanya Hart Go TheeAnd the way you gathered up your excess soulbefore it spilled to the floor.At the end of the Hebrew-Yiddish-English poetry readingand you went to eat shawarma…
Photo: Andreas Manessinger/FlickrOld friend, when we meet, we will meetas two shelves of wings and many harsh years, as one imagination that won’t exchange toasts:there’s no one to stomp the grap…
Gaza City. Photo: Getty / AFP photo / Mahmud Hams History moves darkly and we are small, soft things. …
The abandoned British Residency in Hyderabad, India. Photo: Kishore NagarigariAuthor’s note: After my mother’s death, I struggled with the meaning of legacy. Mother Load…
Photo: Claude Valette EvolutionI was once a Paleolithic painter, a sensual hunterplundering the earth, living from hand to mouth.I painted at the cave’s corner, concerned o…
Photo by Zsolt Andrasi/FlickrGlints of the tram. The nondescript housesdream numb underwater dreams. Faces aretransparent bubbles popping off from the windowswhere water used to break through. The ped…
Photo by Todd Slagter/Flickr A BridgeBehind us a sea-cliff, landfall, ahead the wind,tar-smoke, the sea, a carrick.We sway on a bridge between themabove a great shattering. We have leftthe verge,…
Photo: US Army IMCOMBodyFor Hassan Rabeh, young dancer displaced from Syria, who killed himself by jumping from a seventh-floor balcony in Beirut, Wednesday, June 22, 2016& perhaps you fl…
Photo: Train Photos/FlickrA Swap At the market bus stopI’m waiting with a man in ragged clothes,unshaven, his hair greasy,swinging his hand holding a big plastic bagwith “The Big Shopper” written…
Photo by Kai C. Schwarzer/FlickrOn recent nights בַּלֵּילוֹת הָאַחֲרוֹנִיםאֲנִי מְחַפֶּשֶׂת אֶת הַבַּיִת שֶׁלִּינָעָה אַחֲרָיו בִּשְׁבִילֵי הַיְקוּםאַרְבָּעִים שְׁנוֹת מִדְבָּרמְגַשֶּׁשֶׁת ב…
Open book on a bed. Photo by Steve Petrucelli 9:40 a.m. / Venipuncture The way they step on one another’s heelsuntil a spindle-legged woman with dyedhair trips in the queue, and all stickthe…
Fragments of an Inexistent Whole Inspired by Alison Knowles’s “A House of Dust”1.Syllables sieved through floating gates, Metal clack of printer Mortal renditi…
Photo: visitmelbourne.com dusk, Summerland Beach, Phillip Islandhere they come rush of learners jerky gear shifts and no id…
Illustration: Amina Rizwan after Tarfia FaizullahHere, by this tide of waste thatribbons black across empty f…
Photo by Paula Goodale Thistles and GodsThistles and gods all withered in the sunLike the blanched remains of temples,Long and slender skeletons,Irrevocable examplesOf the burden of being immorta…
In a Warm Bed (An Alba)by Tomasz RóżyckiIn a warm bed, the minute just before dawn.A blackbird has woken up and is tracinga figure eight outside the window. Belowthe sound again of unkn…
Image courtesy of the International Dunhuang Projectas if a drunken body carried by handcart placed in a comfortable room, the coffinis now being lowered sutra engraved on the lidth…
Photo: Himanshu Nerurkar The AntLet it go back to the anthill. If it brushes inattentively against your fingersclimbs themand daydreamsin the furrows of your hand,don’t chase it away or squa…
Willendorf Venus Natural History Museum, Vienna, Austria. © Jorge Royan / commons.wikimedia.orgNight is coming on.Pirate flags, family pictures,superhero figuresand the image of Venus de Wi…
Photo by Renate DodellThese are the closed doors of a hotel hallway. What once were dreams, what life will one day be.She dares to ask. Room 217 looks like a sunny Caribbean isle, like a shipwreck…
Photo by Kenneth Dellaquila Language Barrier“When you tell them about their own bodies,” My mentor told me, “realize Their anatomy is Greek to them. Their pupils dilate, pulses riseWith all th…
Photo by Benjamin Jakabek Photography alone i will live alone in a room with two birds, a cat and three flowers. in the mornings we will wake with blue eyes. in the morni…