by Gene Twaronite
All the dresses
in the store look
made for people who
never have to worry
if they’ll fit.
Category Archives: Poetry
Forever 21
Honeycreepers
by Joseph Stanton
1. Prologue
Honeycreepers speciated,
theory has it,
from an irruption of rose finches
wind-driven to these islands
four-million years ago,
give or take a million years.
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Travelers of the Dreamless Hours
by Peter Marcus
A crone standing inside a bamboo kiosk, stirs arroz caldo.
Only faint electric light on the back roads in the Palawan
pre-dawn from the few garages vulcanizing rubber lit
by dim fluorescent tubes. A florid scent unfurls across
the valley and you know yourself as fortunate being
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A Rainy Season Illusion
by Mitsuko Takayasu
(translated by Toshiya Kamei)
Vermeer blue
hydrangeas in bloom
are infinitely gentle mirrors on the water surface.
A rainbow after the rain stretches
across the blue sky above me.
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