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Five Poems From Israel

Cinco poemas desde Israel

Anat Zecharia

Happiness Do your bitch's howl for me That's what your happiness sounds like When it catches you red-handed With your tongue hanging out Later you will pay Not as punishment, it's…

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Five Movements from a Gesture in Mid-Air

Rocío Cerón

Translated by Tanya Huntington 12:56 Course of time foreshadowed over folds of age: life, the settled, the unsettled (a history already foreshadowed by contraction, a reality that shall become fiction:…

Poetry

Canción por Billie Holiday / Blanco de blancos

José Antonio Mazzotti

El invierno y el infierno se parecen en una sola cosa: el hielo pelado que en…

Poetry

Parusía de los muertos

P a b l o P i c e n o

(Fragmento) Ilustraciones: Mariana Rodríguez Fernández I TE LO SUPLICO, HAY QUE MORIRNOS JUNTOS Después tuve una visión. He aquí que una puerta estaba abierta en el cielo, y aquella voz que…

Poetry

Five Poems

Cinco poemas

Luis Hernández

The Song M. Balakireff They say I am a dreamer Who dreams And others say of me So long. I'm going to another place And if sorrow Catches up with…

Poetry

Poemas

Sandra Lorenzano

Como si cada vez se escaparan las palabras. Como si el cincel de las horas borrara las huellas y obligara a buscar otra vez desde el principio: .....(malvones y ríos,…

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INSOMNIO

ELSA CROSS

7 Oyes el tic tac de una noche retrógrada el goteo de una llave que no puede cerrarse el llamado intermitente de un pájaro nocturno un ronquido que se filtra…

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SWINGS

COLUMPIOS

EDUARDO MITRE

Fearful that the last sunbeams will leave and they will be alone again ..............................................they keep scratching the twilight swinging higher and higher together in the same bear of joy ..............................................look…

Poetry

Three Poems

Tres poemas

Tanya Huntington

RES NULLIUS Those who alleged a marked distinction between life and death were wrong; in fact, I’ve been hauling molecules around for forty years that, in isolation, are far older…

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El equilibrista de Bayard Street

Eduardo Chirinos

Para Roxana y Jorge, que las han visto Camina de puntas el equilibrista de Bayard Street, evita el abismo la mirada y arranca de cuajo toda pretensión, ¿de qué sirven…

Poetry

Like a New Sun

Eliot Weinberger

The arrival of the Spaniards in Mexico has often been compared to the appearance of extraterrestrials (more exactly, extra-terrestrials before the age of science fiction, before we began to imagine…

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FAR SIDE of Utopia

Margaret Randall

If Memory says it’s tired, needs to stop for a moment and take a break, remind it of bridges and tunnels, dangerous byways and passages where water threatens blood…