Don’t come. The pictures are fake,

Photoshopped stock foliage.

- Jason Stefanik

let’s not sleep yet

as long as the gentle music plays

and while we still have the chance

let's face the music and dance

- julia hartwig & irving berlin

Tell us we will respect the differences of others

carry out just laws

- Julia Hartwig

Everything to Measure

Julia Hartwig

Oh no—paradise is not disheveled nature

bearded unkempt pines shrubbery branches

blue-black colonies of berries

looking out with the eyes of hunted deer

Paradise is a garden

where everything is to measure

joy but not wildness

not despair but melancholy

It is the victory of order

So what if on gravel paths

you sometimes hear approaching steps

above which a body had no time to take shape

The Czech writer Hrabal said:

I have as much freedom as I take.

- Julia Hartwig

Higher and Higher

Julia Hartwig

   Born on a trash heap, victims of seven plagues, we

proclaim every day a victory.

   One more day. I am still alive.

   While the trash heap grows and lifts us up, toward

immortality.

O, white flowers of shadow, the wild glistening of the river!

- Julia Hartwig

Stay forever green tree of joyful existence

tree rooted in the sky

and tree drawing its sap from the earth

tree of illusion and tree of dream

solitary tree and tree seeking support among other trees

rooted tree and tree eager to travel

tree frightened by night and tree finding shelter in the night

talkative tree and tree fond of silence

- Julia Hartwig

slight 

holes puncturing 

the muscle 

of distance

- claire hero

steal inside  

this brain 

cave 

- claire hero

watch new morphemes  

hatch 

in the wounds  

- claire hero

falar de ti

sem te expor

te despir

sem tirar tua roupa

te fazer sorrir

com um poema

sem precisar

escrevê-lo

- nicolas behr

O espelho me olha com cara de quem

sabe exatamente o que fiz.

Mas como não fiz nada,

ficamos os dois

com cara de juiz.

- AR