eight ways of speaking about snow
“when I talk/ to you over the phone I like/ your tongue, when you light me/ your fresh poems.” Poem of the Week (January 20), by Agnieszka Wolny-HamkaÅ‚o. Translated from Polish by Elżbieta Wójcik-Leese.
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We Found the Song
“The petals fall./ One by one/ They fall from the kapok/ Over the afternoon’s skin…” By Conceição Lima, translated from Portuguese by David Shook.
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laws of gravity
“a poet who forgets all his words doesn’t have any weight/ he turns into a straw in the wind./ The wind howls in the howling of the wolves…” By Mohsen Emadi, translated from Persian by Lyn Coffin.
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Nature on the Menu
“homo sapiens clinging to the world’s skin/ their boxed way of thinking has no brakes…” By Ruperta Bautista, translated from Tsotsil and Spanish by Clare Sullivan.
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Migrants
“Here, the procession of silence in the yard where hunger chews an ear of corn/ picked/ clean of its kernels, and dreams/ of gathering together the scattered remains…” By Eduardo Arellano, translated from Spanish by Anthony Seidman.
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My Harsh Tears Have Brought Black to Its Knees
“I bring black to its knees,/… I make joy and sadness brawl.” By Tseveendorjin Oidov, translated from Mongolian by Simon Wickhamsmith.
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Shadows of Shadows in the Light of the Light
“The dark night is deaf to the feet stepping along the path./ What am I that rides the enchanted shadows, kicking at the black rocks?” By Tseveendorjin Oidov, translated from Mongolian by Simon Wickham-Smith.
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Vapor Trail
“…the oxygen in the air is leaking away;/ a jet plane/ scrambles…” Poem of the Week (December 9), by Oh Sae-young. Translated from Korean by Brother Anthony of Taizé.
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FM-Biography
“There’s an easier way, there are/ such places: pools of spilt light cool as billycans,/ the snail-slow pulse of passing towns…” Poem of the Week (2 December), by Agnieszka Wolny-HamkaÅ‚o. Translated from Polish by Clare Pollard.
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A Marble Paleness
Story of the Week (November 27), excerpted from Michal Hvorecký’s novel ‘Danube in America’. Translated from Slovak by Eva Hudecová and Mark Lencho.
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