Your embrace,
a close shelter to live in,
a place to die in,
Ahmad Shamlou (translated from the Persian
from the book
Elegies of the Earth: Selected Poems /
World Poetry
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- November 1, 2026
James Brunton
When I was a girl,
girl meant nothing
to me for a while,
and later, a mystery...
- October 31, 2026
Gray Davidson Carroll
What is this lifeblood if not a river?
I enter my body as exit strategy.
I come from a long line of fathers
without fathers. I've said too much.
- October 29, 2026
Snehal Vadher
Once, when three, you had almost drowned
in the village pond. The light of Ankleshwar
must have appeared as though in a pinhole
- October 28, 2026
Okwudili Nebeolisa
If it happened in the dream, would calling it
trauma be apt? I buried my face
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