Punjabi Disco

Nu-Disco e +

She so listens to Sophie Ellis-Bextor

& remember,

loneliness is still time spent

with the world

- ocean vuong

Unspoken suffering

Hides nothing but thunder and lightning!

- Nguyễn Chí Thiện

Vertigem sem apoio

AR

Os cristais saíram do labirinto—

pendem os olhos em giro.

Minotauro, Minotauro,

onde você está?

Sem brilho,

nem mesmo o chão

sei encontrar.

When the prison guards burned his manuscripts, Nguyễn Chí

   Thiện couldn’t stop

            laughing—the 283 poems already inside him.

- Ocean Vuong

I forgot his name by heart.

- Ocean Vuong

don’t

     be afraid

to be this

     luminous

to be so bright so

     empty

- ocean vuong

     some call this

being human but you

     already know

it’s the briefest form

     of forever

- ocean vuong

Dearest Father, forgive me for I have seen.

- Ocean Vuong

Torso of Air

Ocean Vuong

Suppose you do change your life.

& the body is more than

a portion of night—sealed

with bruises. Suppose you woke

& found your shadow replaced

by a black wolf. The boy, beautiful

& gone. So you take the knife to the wall

instead. You carve & carve

until a coin of light appears

& you get to look in, at last,

on happiness. The eye

staring back from the other side—

waiting.

plumbed fathomed disinterred from this silence

- jorie graham

How

do I organize

myself now. How do I

find sufficient

ignorance. How do I

not summarize

anything. 

- Jorie Graham