Two Figures in Superposition
“Look how the words bend/ back and touch themselves;/ or break…” Poem of the Week (March 9), by Fintan Calpin.
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Atop Land, Under Sea
” ‘But where will we land? Are we going to die?!” wailed Miki. She paused, then whispered: “Someone needs to be the passengers.’ ” Story of the Week (March 7), by Justin YW Lau.
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Aquamarine
“She had a thousand questions she would like to ask: what he did, if he had children, where he had studied, where he lived. She wanted to be able to place him in the world, to know who he was.” Story of the Week (February 26), by Teolinda Gersão. Translated from Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa.
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Declaration of Intent
“No one escapes your influence./ Once, out of my mind, I tried, but the grass barred my way./ And the stars wandered out of their pens…” By Jeet Thayil.
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Felix Descending
“Felix again, falling through sky,/ an age ago, an hour. He is/ a mouthful of air, a savior at the door/ and trembling…” By Ellen Kombiyil.
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Come Undone
“You will not be able to see me change./ You will not see me drifting into the sea./ There will be nothing aquatic/ about this shipwreck…” By Jennifer Robertson.
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Other Small Disasters
“The silverfish will drown in water, yet he was not granted wings. He took to reading, first discount coupons and then fiction…” By Sohini Basak.
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Reclamation
“After the woman he loved married another,/ our hero woke up every morning with a little blood/ in his mouth. Soon, his roommates complained/ when he muttered in his sleep it sounded like death itself.” By Rohan Chhetri.
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Bright Passage
“Mist soars on the river, my door splits free of its hinges:/ My children’s children, and those I will never see —/ Generations swarm in me,/ Born to this North American soil, dreamers in a new world…” By Meena Alexander.
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India Calling
“A boat slowly floating/ away from Indian coast/ sliver of cardamom biscuit/ baking in an orange-rind sun/ water blue green/ like the marbles of childhood…” By Shikha Malaviya.
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