CourtyardDarien Hsu GeeHer new family has her dowry—her chickens have become his chickens. Clipped wings fly the short distance to nowhere. Her ...
SeizeBrian Komei DempsterBlue flame in the eye's corner,stove on high, we brace for his flint ...
Playing the Telephone GameEsther LeeFor instance, you might have said:When he was leaving the store,it was starting to rain.Or:Winnie was a sleeve tor...
Self-Portrait As MangoTarfia FaizullahShe says, Your English is great! How long have you been in our country?I say, Suck on a mango, bitch, since that...
Blue mountains to the north of the walls,White river winding about them;Here we must make separationAnd go out through a thousand miles of dead grass....
It rests me to be among beautiful womenWhy should one always lie about such matters?I repeat:It rests me to converse with beautiful womenEven though w...
As a bathtub lined with white porcelain, When the hot water gives out or goes tepid, So is the slow cooling of our chivalrous passion, O my much prais...
Some may have blamed us that we cease to speakOf things we spoke of in our verses early,Saying: a lovely voice is such as such;Saying: that lady's...
The jewelled steps are already quite white with dew,It is so late that the dew soaks my gauze stockings,And I let down the crystal curtainAnd watch th...
O God, O Venus, O Mercury, patron of thieves, Give me in due time, I beseech you, a little tobacco-shop, With the little bright boxespiled up neatly u...