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A street

yesterday the street I live in became new to me I saw blushing windows in its bend and wound-up cars following the curvature the signs on the rooftops read names I had not noticed before behind a rusty gate the glimpse of an overgrown trellis the scent of blossom rushing in from another season in ...

Reading: So Little Depends by Miguel-Manso

Miguel Manso (b. 1979) is a Portuguese poet born in Santarém. He has written eight books of poetry. I read a verse with a title that appealed to me, 'so little depends': The original is on the website of Poetry International. So Little Depends you prefer the corner, the hidden place the foliage, the shadow, ...

Reading: Singidunum by Nina Stojkovic

Nina Stojkovic is a Serbian-American poet. I had the honor to welcome her in my place here in Seoul. Today I read from her 2013 poetry book 'Three words: foreign'. Singidunum Hugging the dirt under the fortress Two rivers marry again and again Witnessed by our virginity and ideals Rain cascades over crosses and chimneys ...

Appeal to the electric god

Connect my head to your terminal with a fiber optic cable I'll waive my right to an eternity of not-me Have you noticed I am blushing? What can you infer from that? That I am excited, good. So you know everything about me. How, like most people, I doubly failed at Oedipus How I enjoy ...

Meditation on friendship

Close your eyes. Breathe calmly. You sit here alone, master of your own thoughts. Imagine I am talking to you. I want to know what friendship means. Quickly, construct a differentiation. Which opposite op 'friend' have you found? Mere acquaintance? Or: enemy? But what can we say about a thing of which we cannot determine the ...

Reading: The Daughter by Carmen Giménez Smith

Carmen Giménez Smith (b. 1971) is a new York poet who teaches in New Mexico. I read a poem from her 2013 book 'Milk and filth': The Daughter We said she was a negative image of me because of her lightness. She's light and also passage, the glory in my cortex. Daughter, where did you get all that ...

The Good Life

Mark likes to play computer games. In real life he fixes televisions. There are solder spots on his hands, when he sends his armies to the front lines. Paul, who measures buildings before they are inhabited, enjoys spinning a lifetime of infinities in his mind. Oscar, the media guy, prefers sitting in the sun. Justine ...

Uitwaaien in Laos

Een van de voordelen van het freelancerbestaan is de mogelijkheid om spontaner dan een werknemer even naar de tropen te gaan. Toen ik een maand geleden mijn ticket naar Laos boekte had ik last van kiespijn en dacht ik: die ga ik in de jungle wegmediteren in een hangmat. Hier aangekomen was de kiespijn verdwenen ...

Pissing with Ginsberg

I still piss a powerful stream the color of the sun a sizzling fountain that sounds like spring has arrived in my toilet bowl. bowl! bowl!