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  • Poem

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    غيابٌ مبكر

    By Nasser Rabah
    ،لم يكن الوقتُ كافياً لتعلّمِ العزف مثل خطاكِ وهي تصعدُ درجَ البيت
    ،أو الغناءِ المقفى وأنت تغسلين ا…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineEarly Absence

    By Nasser Rabah
    Not enough time to learn how to play an instrument that
    sounds like your steps climbing the stairs at…
  • Poem
    By Afrizal Malna
    December is a straight ruler, very straight,
    and broken in its straightness. A break
    hidden in its fracture…
  • Poem
    By Afrizal Malna
    Desember adalah penggaris yang lurus, lurus sekali,
    dan putus dalam kelurusannya. Putus yang
    tersembunyi…
  • Poem
    By Irina Ratushinskaya
    I know it won't be received
    Or sent. The page will be
    In shreds as soon as I have scribbled it.
    Later. …
  • Poem
    By Li-Young Lee
    Li-Young, don’t feel lonely
    when you look up
    into great night and find
    yourself the far face peering
    hugely…
  • Poem
    By William Butler Yeats
    I

    I walk through the long schoolroom questioning;
    A kind old nun in a white hood replies;
    The children…
  • Poem
    By William Butler Yeats
    The unpurged images of day recede;
    The Emperor's drunken soldiery are abed;
    Night resonance recedes,…
  • Poem
    By Milan Děžinský
    It is sixty-five years since Hiroshima,
    they write. Should one cup a handful of water from a river,
    there…
  • Poem
    By Brenda Hillman
    Having stopped using dolphins to locate explosives in the Cold War
    they had 30 leftover dolphins.
    An officer…
  • Poem
    By W. S. Merwin
    Late in May as the light lengthens
    toward summer the young goldfinches
    flutter down through the day for…
  • Poem
    By James Joyce
    Frail the white rose and frail are
    Her hands that gave
    Whose soul is sere and paler
    Than time's wan wave…
  • Poem
    By Ada Limón
    I pass the feeder and yell, Grackle party! And then an hour later I yell, Mourning dove afterparty!
  • Poem
    By Tilsa Otta
    A star fell to the ground and bounced in the shadow of the sun
    I think of this scene when I’m taken by…
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