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…
Poetry
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…
What One Leaf TellsIn the wind, questions to heaven bang the white poplar. Answers fracture –a thousand white leaves. A thousand blameless mouths. A thousand. Ten thousand colorless excuses;I pick…
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…
Photo by Zvika Melamed Song of the Younger Brother 1 I can think of nothing but the little one, the younger brother.He holds his father’s hand. Peering into the camera…
A simurgh (a monstrous mythical bird with the power of reasoning and speech). From Marvels of Things Created and Miraculous Aspects of Things Existing, by al-Qazwīnī (d. 1283/682). Courtesy o…
Photo: Clarissa BellTo the Children of WarMornings, they run from the dark along the length of the seashore.Like an iron sword beaten by a blacksmith, the sun reddensas their feet strike the ground.So…
Photo: Robert S. Donovan A Man’s ConfessionThis is not simply loneliness. Your absenceis a terrible and bitter thing.Every night when I return, throwopen the front door, leavebehind all other amu…
Photo: Unsplash We Shall Manage for Rabiqe, who doesn’t like to read sad poemsour teardrops will drywe shall forget even the easiest of rebellions – rebellion against Godwe shall forg…
Bronze statue in Baku’s Fountain Square of a young woman in contemporary attire talking on a mobile phone, erected in 2014. Photo: Alison MandavilleI have broken a cupThere is an ache in every corner…
Photo: Stefan SchweihoferI Scatter Bread Crumbs to the SparrowsFrom my palms spills the joy of sparrows.I call them to the crumbs, Come quickly! and Who will be first?Their frozen bills warm,…
Photo: Kris Williams/FlickrArchipelagoThe enigma is some other thing – no gods live here Just men and the sea, immovable inheritance. UndeniableBy dowry I received you at birth and I recognize…
Photo: Vincent Brassinne (Flickr.com/vainsang)Sand WomanA woman was lifted from the sand. She was perfectly intact, not even a split hair.When he left they say she didn’t eat or sleep. She didn’t di…
Editorial note: The Swabian versions of the following poems are read by the author. The English versions are read by Tegan White-Nesbitt.Abwesenheitsnotiz Aushäusig daheim,…
Photo: Public Domain/PixabayUntitledThe wildflowers don’t bloom on command nor can their seeds be sown rebellious winds whirl at dawn winnowing seeds toward the ossuaries of the fields in…
Photo by Fiona Baxter/FlickriHe once sold a portion of himself to a fish packing plant, slipped in the crates of the headless and dressed when all eyes were bludge…
Jeremy Miranda, Salt Marsh, 2014, acrylic on panel. Courtesy of the artist.How Much of Yourself Remains Within the Walls of a Home?after Jeremy Miranda’s Salt Marsh (2014)…
Photo by Ryan GodfreyX Days After the Amnesia EpidemicWe set out on this road knowing we would discover nothing amazing. We didn’t expect to find a new route to Mercury, we didn’t imagine we would s…
Antoni Tàpies, Porta metàl·lica i violí, 1956, 200 x 150 x 13 cm.Back then I learned that the painter’sgesture contains both the movement of the planetand the blade of grass on the mountain.I…
Egon Schiele, Portrait of Wally Neuzil, 1912, oil on wood (32 x 39.8 cm). © 2015 Leopold Museum, Wien, Austria. www.leopoldmuseum.org/en/leopoldcollection/masterpieces/33On VisionWal…
Photo by Andrew Toskin Still Life with Toy Gunfor Tamir Rice and John Crawford IIIafter the after-party empties both of its fists the seven of us gather like a murderof crows…
Adam and Eve,by Gail Caulfield, Villa Montalvo (Italy)Genesis 2: 18–22 After a while, the glitter began to fade, the way a bright star, regarded full-on,…
Tahel Frosh. Photo by Alon Poratהרי ספרדאֲנִי כּוֹתֶבֶת אֶת מַה שֶּׁלֹּא יִתָּכֵן כִּי יֵשׁ מִי שֶׁמְּדַבְּרִים עַל כֶּסֶף בְּאִינְטִימִיוּת מִי שֶׁמַּעֲבִירִים בִּזְרָמִים חוּשָׁנִיִּים כֶּסֶף שֶׁלְּ…
