226 pieces
Pieces
Flash , Volume 9, Issue 1
The Fireman’s Wife
Translated by Leo Shtutin Small-statured Master Zet is dressed in blue knee-highs, burgundy breeches and thin-soled sandals.
Poetry , Volume 9, Issue 1
Coping Mechanisms
The cow’s hoof bore an upside / down heart of an abscess.
Poetry , Volume 9, Issue 1
Inheritance
If you don’t mind a touch of hell-- / could we imagine a return to our prayers? / In their fragile heels and long black skirts, / I’m speaking with my…
Poetry , Volume 9, Issue 1
Beauty Marred My Own Little Cargo Cult
As a child, mother’s aluminium head-lice comb / Was more beautiful than any princess’s diadem. / I saw it’s avatars in music box clockworks, / Turnstile’s…
Poetry , Volume 9, Issue 1
The Apocryphal Anglerfish
Many people will / postulate, or comment / with frustrated smugness. / Some will weep / and mythologize. / Others will sneer / and provide scientific…
Flash , Volume 9, Issue 1
Guāi 乖
When she’s born, she is greeted by a word that is the sound of a lowered jaw, pursed lips and breath pushing high against the tongue, straight into the…
Poetry , Volume 9, Issue 1
The Mountain-Drifter
The world only a rumor / Hard to leave, unwavering / In exile and posterity; / Unison as untroubled / As the breeze, touching nothing / But the moonlight…
Poetry , Volume 9, Issue 1
New Morning
Early morning, / cocks stop crowing, / other birds take up the call. / A town awakes, / leaves the sex dreams in their bed somewhere, / pushes the fear…
Poetry , Volume 9, Issue 1
multilingual
a polyglot / living monolingually / the language I used to speak / warm / cold / the only thing I had / the phrases and metaphors and slang / picked up…