Iván Palacios Ocaña (translated from the Spanish by Noah Mazer)
Outside,
the wind
knocked over a little metal sign.
The noise turned our heads and we saw that it was raining
on the opposite corner,
but not on ours.
from the journal
Asymptote
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- June 15, 2021
Ai
What we as a brotherhood lack in imagination
we make up for with curiosity.
I was always motivated
by a ferocious need to know.
- June 14, 2021
Antun Branko Šimić (translated from the Croatian by Courtney Angela Brkic)
You do not even sense
that I have returned and am near at hand
At night when the silent moon murmurs in your ear
know:
it is not the moon circling your house
I am wandering on the blue paths of your garden.
- June 13, 2021
A. M. Juster
The caution tape is tattered
and flapping in the wind.
Birds guard the median
where glass and steel lie shattered.
- June 12, 2021
Rosebud Ben-Oni
You say you know the reason why Archimedes died
tracing circles in the sand & how
you’ll go out this way,
a man too in love
with unifying
theorem
& consequence.
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