On the shoulder of St Jerome a bird speaks but cannot write and afraid of the past tense speaks prophecy The saint is the bird’s way of delivering messages but translation is difficult god’s voice or not and we have … Continued

Oh Idea, I try to by Jolly. I love you with my wooden sides. My flapping cardboard mast. Roll my name along, please, with your bearings. Merrily I’ll climb back into the Metal Caul. I fear we’ve hyphenated. ### Amy … Continued

You might know it as yesterday. It currently sits in a back room knowing its moment wrinkled like water over creek stones then passed thoughtlessly away so now it holds vigil elbows propped on the windowsill studying rabbits and how … Continued

AKIGOHARA, JAPAN Visitors spot them clinging to the crooked pines. Spirit behaviors reported by day-tripping salary men can be pure absurdist theater or merely prankish— water taken from day packs stuck upside down in the mud, the braids of twin … Continued

Is one of the symptoms remembering the ghosts one has seen? I am not going to sign my name to this postcard because who knows whose eyes will see it besides yours and you should know who is in Mogadishu … Continued

after yin xiuzhen \ Pack my village in your suitcase let’s get out of here. Here’s our hovercraft, here’s our disk drive, here’s our charioteer. Smell the colossus of our footprints—glass burns, copper verdure, the valley sings. Singe your fingers … Continued

That summer day it all went bad a swarm of flies infested the house, entered through holes in the screens and settled upstairs in the room I was using to type my novel. They buzzed boldly, each big as a … Continued

His chin-hair hardened like enamel from meat and bone-blood, says: This is how man was. With all of my weight on you I want you to feel how man was: Take the whole plate into your mouth and see what … Continued

Everything after aches river & bones & the unsaid naming itself endlessly. He comes to me in dreams, and I reach for needle & thread to close the tear at his knee. This morning I found ants in the saltshaker, … Continued

Now we are only half human being. We do things with hesitation, we do things with ego. Even when we don’t hesitate, we do things with ego. Yeah, I know I was vegetarian because the God inside us wants it. … Continued

To Cui Hao: Their people mounted the yellow crane but who is freer at the top? The yellow crane has been moving for a while, or is already gone by the time my word arrives that white clouds have emptied … Continued

Translated from Polish by Ewa Hryniewicz-Yarbrough Endless trouble, this wind Here on the river black at this time of year When shallow ruts glazed with ice crackle. Digging into memory as if digging into the recesses of a walnut He looked … Continued

A house is an elephant I live in I live in one room and death is also in it like a plant I forget sometimes to water With time I can forget anything Lost to me have been some lakes … Continued

a couple names their child Baked Ziti then she is orphaned this is one example of the joke against humanity a man beside you on the train has been diagnosed with a learning disorder his doctor sends him home with … Continued

With the Versailles Treaty of 1919 the Danish-German border is the only one that is saved   Some countries like Poland, e.g. change their size and form and placement under cover of night   It is POles with headscarves it … Continued

this time, the fennel bulb won’t burn out, i tell you. her name is Naji and her voice is deep. the aloe doesn’t like the sunshine, but today, it likes her. the gold dots in the air agree, wheeing and … Continued

Black oak chain-sawed into smaller logs, milled to board, sanded smooth in the barn, then doweled and fit with precision. Grandma’s buffet holds good china, stained glass in the doors, one pane cracked: to fix it would mean taking everything … Continued

the whole room fills up with iced tea, something gives: the sun peels from your window, a sugared lemon, whole, flaming, hanging there. You tell them they must: puncture your chest with a straw to suck all the empty out, … Continued

lobster is a delicacy to lobster, and possessed of the ability to drop and grow back claws, lobster is not known to feed off of itself. The temptations of self-sufficiency are great, but not great enough, nor is it the … Continued