Dolores Dorantes — Second life

Second life.
They won’t find us anywhere other than in the unexpected passageways of the mind.
This place is hot.
This place you’ve gotten yourself into is hot.
We are hundreds of girls.
You will have to slit each one’s throat or sharpen us to watch over your memor ... კითხვის გაგრძელება »

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Dolores Dorantes — We all want you to keep us alive.

We all want you to keep us alive.
We want you to hold us at a boil. For you to say yes and then some.
For you to command us, get out and show me your tongues.
We all want you to redden us. For you to cut across us.
We want to receive the blow of your tongue and lose ourse ... კითხვის გაგრძელება »

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Dolores Dorantes — Close us

“7.-Close us. Destroy our mouths. Enter.
Torture us in other realities.
Take us with your mind and your word.
Bring us to our knees. May your gust of birds pass over us.
Convert us in a sky cut across by branches.
Capture us by the throat as you would with animals. ... კითხვის გაგრძელება »

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Dolores Dorantes — Branches

“6.-Branches. Branches crossing the air. Branches cutting the air. Cutting across the interminable skin of sky. Lashing the sky. Of us all you have is shreds of sky, fervor. We are shreds. Live parts of a tree. Goldwork applied painfully onto the air, the skin of air is what you have. The blue flesh ... კითხვის გაგრძელება »

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Dolores Dorantes — Intervene (Excerpt)

Written in collaboration with Rodrigo Flores Sánchez
You never finish me: a tower
USE ME UP
sky
CLIMB ME
grave
INTERVENE IN ME
love
Foreperson
You have anchored my legs to the land
My trunk out in the open
You have left my ... კითხვის გაგრძელება »

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Ida Börjel - Mountain ranges were, the mountains’ quiet

mountain ranges were, the mountains’ quiet
quiet echo; flag on Mount Everest
over the frozen corpses, over tons
of garbage left behind along
the trails on the streets of Berlin
right-wing extremists’ twenty-two-thousand placards
two weeks after the elections ... კითხვის გაგრძელება »

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Ida Börjel - Echolalia; ecologic, premise

echolalia; ecologic, premise
position of dependence; moth
on the wrong side of the pane was
a desert that had ceased to sing
there was also: the boulevard
at sunset, gathering place
at sunset; Aegean
archipelago; rose of woe, night whose eyes
b ... კითხვის გაგრძელება »

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Ida Börjel - Lived time, lived place

lived time, lived place
that memory forces into present tense
sketched in moonlight through the gate
in filmy sunlight through the gates
a mother was, a mother’s echo
the universe expands
the universe expands
testing, forcing, orating
through t ... კითხვის გაგრძელება »

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Ida Börjel - Delusions were; renunciation

delusions were; renunciation
was; sterile Rhineland sisters
in mental hospital straight jackets
branded gypsy, marked
stenched, augured, to omen, omen
tractioned again, for naught
is it butterfly in the mud hut outside the village
the monthly isolatio ... კითხვის გაგრძელება »

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Ida Börjel - Continental drift

continental drift,
movement; fire, the fire’s
movement and the question marks
tongueless around shore and ocean
to hear the dread pronounced in one’s name
in motion; in motion
Lieng sets herself alight, the revolt
the right, earth glow, hunger, tedium ... კითხვის გაგრძელება »

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Ida Börjel - Night and year rent

night and year rent
the fracturing
rifts; ambiguous shredding
the di lampedusa method was
nothing would change
and megalomania, megalomania
the deep state
the milk, poured onto the road
the wheat, torched in the square
featherlight marks ... კითხვის გაგრძელება »

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Ida Börjel - Movement, in motion

movement, in motion
in earth words, earths, forsaken
relinquished every eighth minute
to run for your life
where children have played with rubicund
fingers against clavicles
that do not speak do not remain
by the mute faces
shamed was
to ... კითხვის გაგრძელება »

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Ida Börjel - The majority of gun deaths in the U.S.

the majority of gun deaths in the U.S.
were categorized as suicides
time, the eruption of time
the inconceivable trespassing in the conceivable
a corporeal counterbid do not hold this
sequenced, righted; I turn around
against what, what, was before
bu ... კითხვის გაგრძელება »

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Ida Börjel - Outer space, the outer spaces were

outer space, the outer spaces were
the decree, word by word; in earth
Earth; there was the more I
express myself the emptier I am
tautology, the tautologies were
weighing
the anchor in reality’s
bond between fore- and background
where the gover ... კითხვის გაგრძელება »

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Ida Börjel - the Grameen bank’s microcredit

the Grameen bank’s microcredit for impoverished women
whose tenet is unreasonable repayment terms
made reasonable through the distance separating
borrower and lender with interest rates
of forty of one hundred percent after a week
whose tenet is shareholders' capit ... კითხვის გაგრძელება »

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Alí Calderón - Sarajevo

The wind is cold it burns
and causes those that wait for the quiet
crossing of the tram to shiver
The elderly lean
their heads against the glass
The boredom of life furrows their faces
They fog up the window with their lost
gaze their distant indiffer ... კითხვის გაგრძელება »

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Alí Calderón - Trans-Siberian

Ten thousand kilometers daily
the Trans-Siberian Express
travels
to go from Moscow to Vladivostok, in Siberia.
We inhabit the same city and
every day our paths meet on the street
but our encounter is colder than
a chilly Siberian night
and no o ... კითხვის გაგრძელება »

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Alí Calderón - SOMEONE who is not me..

SOMEONE who is not me
and who is entirely identical to myself
dogs my heels and trots behind me.
It’s someone else who speaks my words
and ratifies my actions

my memories are recalled by another
and someone else looks out through my eyes.
Someon ... კითხვის გაგრძელება »

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Alí Calderón - CONSTANTINOPLE [Church of the Holy Savior in Chora]

[Church of the Holy Savior in Chora]
Edirnekapi
4th Century a Byzantine church
Outside the walls of Theodosius
are only dust ruined foundations
My elderly grandfather would always go
to the Lady of Our Carmen at eleven
Did he receive communion? Only h ... კითხვის გაგრძელება »

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Alí Calderón - Now that night is a carnivorous flower that feeds on shadow...

Now that night is a carnivorous flower that feeds on shadow
and now that every glint in the darkness
calls up ancient wounds that mortified the flesh
now that silence and day are
the ash that dwell in me you will be
flower necklace and scratch
cool tempered ... კითხვის გაგრძელება »

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Alí Calderón - Mexican Democracy

another corpse found in a black bag
close by another body the wind a bridge
two blocks away: a spiky head open eyes
amongst other news: on the weekend thirty executed coup
de grâce some of them with torture marks the failed rescue
of a kidnap a finger a ring a roll ... კითხვის გაგრძელება »

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Alí Calderón - And we went up the one hundred and fourteen long steps of that temple The sharpness of their volcanic stone burnt our hands

And we went up the one hundred and fourteen long steps of that temple
The sharpness of their volcanic stone burnt our hands

There I saw the neighbouring towns
the market of aromatic pine-sticks and tigers
Tlatelolco
It was from the very high Plaza that we obs ... კითხვის გაგრძელება »

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Christian Bök - Arks and zoos

Arks and zoos now harbour the remnants of our refrains. What poetry can we imagine, when poetry itself has gone extinct? Must we look for it in the soot of our burnt books? Must we decipher it in the trampled pastures of rapeseed near Barbury Castle? Must we discover it by calculating pi to a googol ... კითხვის გაგრძელება »

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Christian Bök - To be the firefly

To be the firefly, descending through the black spires of tamaracks in the forest fire at night. To be the azure spark that skates across the plate of steel, being split by a xenon laser. To be the fleck of radium, painted on the ceiling of the planetarium. To be the Klieg light in the filigree of cities ... კითხვის გაგრძელება »

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Christian Bök - Who Am I

Who am I? – if not some neglected astronaut, being immolated by a fierce aurora, while striding in my spacesuit across the Avenue of the Americas. Who am I? – if not some phan- tom, fighter pilot, dreaming that, while weightless during free fall through a vacuum, my glass visor shatters at the sight o ... კითხვის გაგრძელება »

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Anupama Pilbrow - Insect Poem

My auntie says look at
the difference in the colours of our skins
one lighter than the other (both brown)
in the hot air one sweaty the other dry
I hold her hand. We talk about race
I guess and I feel uncomfortable so does my
sister the fan hums my grandmoth ... კითხვის გაგრძელება »

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Anupama Pilbrow - Happiness Poem

Here I am eating a tasty
nectarine from my neighbour’s tree
and I am eating round the dimple
of where it is eaten by birds ants
other insects and so on who also
like tasty things. Everything is in love
with sugar and I am licking all the juices
drippi ... კითხვის გაგრძელება »

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Anupama Pilbrow - Semiautomatic - Poem

hunger is the opposite
of everything I eat my
way out of purgatory I ingest
everything I swallow myself
I have that fear of peanut butter sticking
to the hard palate of my mouth I eat everything
but peanut butter I am
hungry and out of work
I l ... კითხვის გაგრძელება »

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Anupama Pilbrow - The bone is a long and solid bone.

The bone is a long and solid bone.
It is ripped out of the leg, or the arm,
sometimes the stomach. The cold
eats it from the inside sliding marrow
down the tunnel of mouth the
pain of flesh is relief. Hold the bone
and scrape it hard against concrete
... კითხვის გაგრძელება »

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Anupama Pilbrow - Paralysis poem

Meat paste I am squeezing
around in my hands I am
squeezing it like dough it is
under my fingernails and thick
like dry dough. I am making
meatballs and unmaking them
into paste again I am smelling
the meat and tasting it now
and again I am boi ... კითხვის გაგრძელება »

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Anupama Pilbrow - The body poem

The visible part of the body
sways in the breeze in the wind I play with
its shifting gauze. It has deep empty pockets
the size is perfect for holding a 20 oz. cup of
soda the cup of soda slides in snug to the brim
I take out the straw it makes a sound like shiiick ... კითხვის გაგრძელება »

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