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  Dawn Thoughts Why does it rain in the mornings? The old woman with pushed out stomach comes in the dark dawn. She looks at the mango...

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  Translated from the Portuguese by Calvin Olsen   You never miss Siena The train materialized on binario 3 the moment the ragazza served a cappuccino on that shabby counter in...

Four Poems by Duane Anderson

    Let’s Bleed He walked into the room and said “Let’s bleed.” It was his time, the right building, the right room, right day, right time. I took his name and...

Poems by Aakriti Kuntal

  Snapshot of an afternoon From the blunt white eye of mid-afternoon protrudes an airiness An invisible, continuously morphing, ductile sense of relief Flowers perch above the breeze's invisible ear Immersed in a...

Malayalam Poetry : V.T. Jayadevan’s Poems

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Poems by Rajesh Nandiamkode

  Translated from Malayalam by Ra Sh    Gummy soil Always always it sticks to the spade. Most of my time is spent in scraping it off with a stick. Whenever the landlord comes he...

Malayalam Poetry : Nazimuddin’s Poems

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Malayalam Poetry : Ashalatha’s Poems

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Poems by Nolo Segundo

    On Finding a Dead Deer in My Backyard I saw them a few weeks ago. My wife called me, something urgent-- so I left the computer...

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