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Two Poems
Jack Underwood
‘We are nearing the conclusion of this anatomy. / We are strung between the point of ending, and / the point of having started.’
In the Village
Derek Walcott
‘I came up out of the subway and there were / people standing on the steps as if they knew / something I didn’t.’
Handkerchief
Ghassan Zaqtan
‘Nothing’s left to say between us / everything went / into the train that hid its whistle.’
Flying Towards a Country of Rain
Wang Yin
‘Paper phantoms sit beside me / watching a two-hour movie.’
Two Poems
Joe Wenderoth
‘At first you treat him as a nobility – / a miraculous figure(head) / with no real office. / Then he dies.’
New Hotel Krakow
Adam Zagajewski
‘Now someone else lives in that apartment, / strange people, the scent of a strange life.’
A poem by Adam Zagajewski.
Bianca Burning
C.K. Williams
‘The sexual terror lions are roaring into my ears as I make my way between their cages’
String Theory
Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch
‘On tenterhooks / you think how string constricts, how / it connects, how you followed it back / to Rawtenstall.’