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from Revolt Against the Sun
She died, but no lips shook, no cheeks turned white / no doors heard her death tale told and retold, / no blinds were raised for small eyes to… More
from A Walk in the Shadows
No threat or reprimand could calm our racing hearts and the restlessness spurred by a place where rules and prohibitions fell on us without weight, like a feather. More
from One Left
The last one is out of her coma. For three weeks she recognized no one. She speaks in a labored, halting tone: “I can’t die—not when I think there… More
from Rhapsodia
Do the wings itch as they sprout? / When from the belly’s opening / you first raised your head / and pushing from the pain / sprang into the… More
from Matisse
Vadya’s biography was as much invented as it was true. There were so many blown-out-of-proportion intricacies to remember that he’d long ago lost sight of the facts. More
from Beyond Babylon
They’d told her to go there and make no detours. Because that was where people refashioned their dreams. That was where people found all the Somalis again. More
from Slash and Burn
He gave her one last chance: she had until the count of three to change her mind. After saying the number one, he said Only two left. After saying… More
from Winter’s Garden
For Anton Winter, childhood was crammed with tall grasses and tea roses and green apples in the trees, which were stared at so covetously all summer long that they… More
from The Essential Yosano Akiko: The Ripening Years
Hello my happiness— / the words said themselves / when we met / that second time, the time / I was ready to die for More