Poetry

    One of Twelve Steps “I thought we were going out for dinner. I’ve been waiting.” “You’re drunk. I can’t go out with you now.” She could barely...

  Translated by Danijela Trajković   Karma The Sun will outlast the day, Van Gogh’s blue ear flies. A whisper like the cut of destiny Bleeds on the glass Of peeled words. You...

    midnight brain My brain behaves a bit differently as I lay it down to rest. Ideas hatch, grow wings and mature into challenges. Limitations—they melt and lose...

    earth was insured power pack was a beef rondo to scape a flex the calm noun of the hot dog chain a fifty of the lemon rescue the...

    Name of this Tree Its fine limbs rise, seeking the vertical, cutting thick air with jagged leaves, crowned at the top with five-fingered trumpets of delicate pink-tinged with...

    Orbiting Night rose over the waves, the rain of night dove through waves of air, moon view, the sea comes to fix your headdress, the sea comes to...

    Seven Kinds of Love   1. Love thrives From kiss to kiss As seasons sprout from ecliptic secrets. 2 Love spurs From lust to lust As communities bud from genetic curls 3 Love wind From nothing to nothing As...

    Gift What do I want? I want to be the tide hugging the sand. I want to lose the lunatic shadow. I want to get drunk on...

    Spill-O and the Music Upstairs The concert upstairs and the coronal mass ejection are just diversions The real action’s below in a temple like an insect Spill-O...

  (Book Preview) Painted Reliefs by Masood Hussain & Tanka by Gabriel Rosenstock A condensed version of the introductory note by Zulfi Ali : Masood Hussain's (renowned artist...