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POST-MORTEM and Other Poems by Srinjay Chakravarti

POST-MORTEM An Ambassador in rigor mortis,a Contessa awaiting decent burial,a Matador charred by arsonon a riot’s funeral pyre,a Gypsy spilling…

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Cheshire Cats Don’t Exist – Sharona Kenwrick

‘Cheshire Cats don’t exist,’ I try desperately to explain to Maggie as she lies awake on my arm almost three…

#story #prose #cheshirecats #beauty #England

Connection

Connection A red kite traces a lazy spiral Across a honeycomb of houses Rows and rows of chipped and fading…

#poetry #england #connection #covid #birds #peterthorn #creativewriting

The Only Thing that Is Not Missing Here

In the crevices of the wall I’m barely holding onto life The crack where I live It has neither flourished…

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The Temperature of Artist Luo Li(罗隶)

  I’ve never really felt qualified enough to talk ‘art criticism’. For the most part, I don’t really know what…

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Miguel Aizpuru – Tres Poemas (Three Poems)

Primero, Manhattan Me sentenciaron a veinte años de aburrimiento Leonard sabe a qué me refiero Una condena a la irrelevancia…

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The Roman – Peter Thorn Fiction

‘Graphite!’ exclaims the sharp-suited Polish businessman sat opposite me, and slaps his knees, pleased at remembering the word. ‘We used…

Aloka, Fiction, Poland, Prose, travel

Poems – Katherine Hughes

Two dollar cover band, typical on a Friday night. We could have gone to the wine garden in the alley.…

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Misplaced Confidence – Rati Pednekar Poem

Misplaced Confidence I think it’s time we remembered that we never could predict the futurethat our well-laid plans were nothing…

Pigeon England: The Importance of Meaning and Unspecific Empathy in a World in Chaos

Hundreds of miles across the water, a forklift truck picks up unmarked white box after unmarked white box and stacks…

A Conversation with Covid-19, England, featured

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