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Original Danish text of Maja Elverkilde’s ‘This Will Kill You’.
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This Will Kill You
“He opens his eyes when I come in. “Are you here, my girl,” he says and smiles weakly. I sit down on the bed and gently take his hand between mine…” Story of the Week (March 6), by Maja Elverkilde. Translated from Danish by Peter Woltemade.
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Certainties
“…how electrifying it was/ holding a hand, what quiet/ fingertips felt like on my / cheek…” Poem of the Week (March 3), by Jess Hackett.
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Icarus
“Theorem:/ we will liken our souls/ to a pair of winged horses.” Weekend poem, by Imogen Cassels.
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The Chair
“It was there every morning… set before the sea as if ready to serve. A cane chair—stiff, high-backed, all the more out of place for how intact it looked.” Story of the Week (February 27), by Jean Muno. Translated from French by Edward Gauvin.
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Night Errant
“So when the wolf/ rips the night open…/you deny, you deny,/you deny.” Poem of the Week (February 24), by Esther Phillips.
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Poem
“I stopped and worshipped a reproduction of the Grand Canyon/ I witnessed El Greco’s Agony in the Garden (1590) through the cool glass of a car windscreen…” Weekend poem, by Rowland Bagnall.
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Lucky
“And now, as I sat on my couch unable to move, I understood the odds. I understood that anybody could be the lucky one out of a billion and instead of feeling empowered, I was horrified.” Story of the Week (February 20), by Josh Rank.
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Double Inundations
“The happy hours pass quickly by, the bitter/ ones pass slowly. Still, they are the same.” Poem of the Week (February 17), by Gábor Schein. Translated from Hungarian by Ottilie Mulzet.
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Book Buying
“I walk around, circling the demi-gods / From previous lives, when syllables would sing / The passions of my youth…” Weekend poem, by Michael C. Blumenthal.
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