Sea Monster
A secret: all the oceans are one oceanAnd the ocean looks the same everywhere.Nevertheless, let us praise the white hour,When the depths disappear...
Neoplasm
Sounds like an art movement --Neoclassicism, for example.
But this is no art form.This is a biosphere of portentous possibilities.
Tubular, twistedand prickly papilla
what sculpted youinto...
Translated from the Romanian by Claudia Serea
We conclude our celebration of Women in Translation Month this week. Katherine E. Young, Poet Laureate Emerita of...
Translated from the Albanian by Ani Gjika
We continue our celebration of Women in Translation Month this week. Katherine E. Young, Poet Laureate Emerita of...
Bourgeon continues its celebration of Women in Translation Month.
Rationing
In the line a woman shoutsthere’s flour
I think of warm biscuits
Soon I hearonly rice is leftbut...
co-translated from the Vietnamese by Nancy Arbuthnot and Lê Phạm Lê
Editor's note: August is Women in Translation Month. Bourgeon is celebrating by offering the...
HUSBAND
A handthat reaches out
mooring mefrom a night of wind-tossed dreams
luring me back to portthis bed our terra firma
the heat of his palmthe only thing...
A Heart-Shaped Amulet
Gazing upon the houses and fields of my kingdomI can see my grandmother outside a cottage –around her neck a heart-shaped amulet.Behind...
How Soon Is Now?
Christmassomewhere in Dixie
a young mothernurses her baby
listening to anythingbut The Smiths
while geekstry to figure out
her nameher location
Students shotthe footage
yet thered hat
that...
Fenwick Island
I wish you were here,for you would understandhow the confident starscan move this nightto companionable pity,unwholesome as it is,how the imperishable seamasquerades its...
