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  • Ana Varela Tafur translated from Spanish by Yaccaira Salvatierra

    By the banks or the center of a river,

  • A Demitasse of Extinction

    So funny how that uncanny, unfunny man sought you out on a rainy day in Istanbul—you were in earshot of the bazaar and smoking a hookah, and, of course, it was Ramadan.

  • The Invention of Everyday Life

    A few days later Pierre arrived.

  • Light and Dark

    I like that the word light is powerful and yet so gentle, like a good man.

  • The Afterlife of Fish and Opossum

    Whenever we caught fish when we were boys,

  • Rondeau and Song

    She would have yawned to see a Pharaoh’s fall,

  • Nautilus

    I fantasize about inhabiting a nautilus, how each chamber

  • The Wind Cried Mary  

    In 1967 when Hendrix coaxed, Are you experienced?

  • How I Felt the First Time I Tried It

    Like a clam’s tongue muscling

  • Our Bodies Ourselves

    No one would sit by Vicky Syme

  • DERRIÈRE LE MUR ANTI-BRUIT/PROMENADES EN ÎLE-DE-FRANCE by Chantal Bizzini translated by J. Bradford Anderson

    Pourquoi le rez-de-chaussée

  • A Brief Portfolio

    “Digital streaming, brother, rates of flow in time