[the last leaf]
the last leaf
at the tip of a branch
wants to be
a bird
a cloud
an asteroid
will be- earth
but remains
desire’s black star- in the ...
Poems by Pavla Melková Translated by Joshua Mensch
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1.
Россию отменят. Вместе с Пушкиным и Толстым.
Когда рассеется дым
Над Украиной,
Мы окажемся на руинах
Царства. ...
5 poems by Tatiana Voltskaya translated by Richard Coombes
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The Canal
Çumra Canal’s waters as they flow out of the Beyşehir Lake are normal until they reach Konya’s plains, where they turn blood red. Some say it’s because of the color of the soil, but I believe it’s ...
The Canal by Sabahattin Ali translated from Turkish by Aysel K. Basci
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A Picture
by Alexander Jonathan Vidgop
translated by Leo Shtutin
I chanced to purchase, at a junk shop, a remarkable picture—the work of an old master—and ordered for it a fine heavy boxwood frame. The ...
A Picture by Alexander Jonathan Vidgop translated by Leo Shtutin
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Bergamo
Italy - 18th March 2020
How lonely sits the city once
so full of people. The princess,
now turned slave, is endlessly weeping.
The doors are shut, the windows stand ajar;
somewhere a radio's playing ...
Poems by Immanuel Mifsud Translated by Ruth Ward
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Paul van Ostaijen: Village, 1928
.......................a version
In the night, a bat
your breath
doesn’t depend on the breath of another
and you know this place
the people, house to house, at ...
A poem by Paul van Ostaijen translated by Joshua Weiner
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Four Poems by Korean Women Poets from the 16th-19th Centuries Translated by Suphil Lee Park
Chang-Ahm Jeong
By Choo-Hyang
We row to the blue estuary
Stun birds awake into flight
Mountain marked ...
4 Poems Translated by Suphil Lee Park
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Of my Own Free Will
Novel excerpt by Mathilde Forget
copyright Editions Grasset & Fasquelle, 2021
Translation by Kaylen Baker
Chapter Three
If his hand was in your mouth, he wasn’t ...
Of my Own Free Will Novel excerpt by Mathilde Forget Translation by Kaylen Baker
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If Only
If only; if only it would snow.
I lived, I was, defeated, honoured, proud.
Oh, when will come the snow, the falling snow?
The snows will come.
One day I'll step down from the off-white porch
See ...
If Only By Dmitry Vodennikov Translated from the Russian by Richard Coombes
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