INSIDE THIS ISSUE:
Deji Adesoye
Changming Yuan
Violeta Allmuca
Beppe Costa
Engjell I. Berisha
Narendra Kumar Arya
Akwu Sunday Victor
Michelle Bailat-Jones
Laszlo Slomovits
Stefania Battistella
Agron Shele
Lana Bella
Fahredin Shehu
Alan Britt
Silvia Scheibli
Shutta Crum
Running Cub
Alex Ferde
Irsa Ruci
Jennifer Burd
Paul B. Roth
Richard Gartee
Elisavietta Ritchie
Peycho Kanev
Helen Gyigya
Amit Parmessur
Sneha Subramanian Kanta
Robert Nisbet
Jeton Kelmendi
Duane Locke
Richard Lynch
Jean McNerney
Fred Wolven
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MAP THIS MAKING
I have forgotten the difference between near and far,
between the look and the line.
Is this going to have to be another translation?
Because the question I wanted to ask doesn’t work in the present tense.
And this tree falling?
I cannot let this be a look, nor just a line.
Can’t we make this a story about someone else?
In its current storm, the lightning will snap a white heat,
and eventually everyone else will only care
about the tree that was knocked down,
about the broken window and the flooding.
But inside the house we are still wondering if I meant one or two,
lost or found. Inside the house we are still wondering
if our map still fits the territory.
Always the flooding, and that tree still my secret.
PARALLEL
Early on autumn mornings,
it’s hard to tell the difference
between a curled leaf on the Linden tree
outside my office window and:
a tucked mouse, a heart, a nuthatch,
the half-finished possibility of a nest.
My third childhood home
was on Linden street and its magic
was a camellia so overgrown it could hold
aloft the body of a five-year-old girl. She was:
a tucked mouse, a heart, a nuthatch,
the half-finished possibility of a nest.
Michelle Bailat-Jones, St. Legier, Switzerland