It’s just like the tongue, isn’t it, to fold you up into a tiny origami swan whose angled wings splay and whose jutted neck and beak point out over some expanse of water a tugboat hauling the mammoth frigate upstream the reckless kayaker tickling an eddy the currents changing temperature beneath your feet as you…
Sidewalk vendors look askance when I ask Am I headed East or West? I could tell them I navigate by the sky’s color but it wrong-foots me time and again. What sky? they say, looking up. The one that cracked wide one bright September, while we were looking away, the one that enchanted Portuguese cartographers,…
Translated by Jennifer Grotz and Piotr Sommer Verily it is the Apple that wants to be eaten Apple of sweet ignorance of good and evil a dappled, appley, appleton squeezed inside itself like a fist reeling until hurt by its own seeds Around its own impatience it quickly revolves to eve so that she might…
She says, Your English is great! How long have you been in our country? I say, Suck on a mango, bitch, since that’s all you think I eat anyway. Mangoes are what model minorities like me know nothing about, right? Doesn’t a mango just win spelling bees and kiss white boys? Isn’t a mango a…
loved the Mobius, and the sky’s big suggestion of a universe, and now and then would imagine a heaven as if it were his to construct and manage, death just a pause before the real work would begin. In truth, and in his…
Is it difficult to get away from it all once you’ve had a child? I am swaying in the galley—working to appease this infant who is not fussing but will be fussing if I don’t move— when a black steward enters the…
The sun may be bright but it is not clear To me why I feel as I do, feeling my way Along the shadowy sidewalks that show No traces of the footprints that should Have worn the concrete down to earth, No hard evidence of the lives of my friends Or scrap of fabric upon…
Do you remember when we were standing around the park waiting for something cool to happen and that friend of ours walked up to a very orange cat and kicked it into the sky like a soccer ball, like the exact opposite of what the animal was, and how it seemed to stay in the…
Stalin’s genocide might never have happened in Pripyat, just outside Chernobyl, where soldiers told her father who asked to keep a few potatoes, Your soul will fly away and we’ll wrap your guts around the phone wires. Her family nearly killed and ate her. Then came the Germans— posing in lederhosen on the…
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