Totonha
“The way I see it, real wisdom is knowing how to read someone’s face. Right up nose to nose with whoever it is.” Story of the Week (June 19), by Marcelino Freire. Translated from Portuguese by Annie McDermott.
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Hollow
“Their bewilderment has intensified// The hollow was once again sealed with cement/ the next day it was much wider than before…” Poem of the Week (June 16), by Mesándel Virtusio Arguelles. Translated from Filipino by Kristine Ong Muslim.
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The Way I Learned to Ignore
“My grandmother feared ghosts. I mocked her.// Alone, I learned that despair is a graveyard…”
Weekend poem, by Juleus Ghunta.
You and I: A Short Story in Fragments
“Many people will die. Someone’s mother, someone’s father and someone else’s child. They will be mourned.” Story of the Week (June 12), by Nafiza Azad.
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About the purest memories: or about light
“it was being there, being so young/ and death so far off,/ when there were no dead no funeral processions,/ only the living, the laughter…” Poem of the Week (June 9), by Ana LuÃsa Amaral. Translated from Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa.
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Das Mais Puras Memórias: Ou De Lumes
Original Portuguese text of Ana LuÃsa Amaral’s poem ‘Das Mais Puras Memórias’.
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Post-Partition Noir
“…Someone somewhere/ whispers: ‘let’s partition the cat.’ Grandfather/ canes in his history lesson: ‘the other side/ was a land of rivers. This one is of relief-camps.'” Weekend Poem, by Nandini Dhar
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Yamami
“I don’t want to die in the first world, I want to die lost on the horizon. Dazzled.” Story of the Week (June 5), by Marcelino Freire. Translated from Portuguese by Annie McDermott.
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MacArthur’s stick
“…near-exact, though blunted/ after each attack, each polite request/ denied, after which the spreading grin…” Poem of the Week (June 4), by Phoebe Walker.
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Escape
“I’ve also started playing The Quiet Game on my own a lot, especially at night.” Story of the Week (May 29), by Zuha Siddiqui.
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