by Zaina Alam Piya
Tag: culture
The Pain
by Oliver Kleyer
After 3 long years, my back pain and I finally separated. It had been a troubled relationship, going back and forth, on and off. After I had announced the separation, my back pain refused to believe it, clinging to me and after I definitively told her it was over, she lingered there for some time. Finally, the news settled in and she had to accept it. My back pain finally moved out and now lives in Bremen.
I rejoiced for half a day. Then my leg started to hurt.
Read More »New Year’s Eve
by Emma Bowen
On January 13th, 2022, I typed two sentences in a note on my MacBook.
“One year from now, my life is going to be completely different than what I’ve always known. I don’t know if that’s comforting or the contrary.”
Sitting at the same laptop a year and a half later, I can confidently say this prophecy is entirely true and entirely false at the same time.
Read More »The Damsel in Real Distress
by Anam Tariq
In princess white, unfurled
to dance, the damsel,
seeing (oh!) so far as
the ambit of the newly earned spotlight.
Unaware of the vengeful darkness
where that light doesn’t fall.
So clustered by sooty impressions,
as with light dance the shadows,
she danced, celebrated, among
happy faces and masked faces,
supportive faces and delusive faces.
Prompt, III.
Is your vacation mode on yet? We are soon going to take some time off, so we only have simple questions for you this month, before getting more serious in autumn. We are no less curious, though. Send us all sorts of recommendations or anything that keeps inspiring you. (Invitation always open.) 🙂
Read More »When We Smile
3 poems
2 scenes
2 poems
by Hiten Chojer
But now I quit this dance, my dear siblings.Read More »
I must put my feet back on earth.
My Family
by Rena Kim
I remember talking to the trees.
An only child and back then,
petless and no one to talk to at home
My companions were the wind, the flowers, and the trees
and everything
was so interesting
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