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Hame-comin - by Gerda Stevenson

{ Poem }

Hame, hame, hame on the truck,
/ the wheels grind their grumly air, …

The Yellow House - by María Soledad Quiroga

{ Poem }

The house
/ yellow
/ windows everywhere without panes
/ pure…

Ever Northwards - by Ivan Štrpka

{ Poem }

A few more looks over
/ my breeze-polished shoulders
/ and I shall be home.
/
/ The spilled-over
/ window deepens with every gaze.
/ On the island
/ which incessantly…

from Tell Them - by Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner

{ Poem }

I prepared the package
/ for my friends in the states
/ the dangling earrings woven
/ into half moons black pearls glinting
/ like an eye in…

Returning to Tel Aviv - by Karen Alkalay-Gut

{ Poem }

This is a place I like to know
/ with the ease of love,
/ gliding slow along the way –
/ these streets of white…

So Much for Mañana - by Judith Ortiz Cofer

{ Poem }

After twenty years in the mainland
/ Mother’s gone back to the Island
/ to let her skin
/ melt from her bones
/ under her native sun.
/ She…

‘My Belarus with cornflowers blooming . . .’ - by Nadzieja Salanovič

{ Poem }

My Belarus with cornflowers blooming,
/ my land of camomile!
/ I’m no ‘new Belarusian’ woman,
/ I cling to ‘older’ style.
/ Not by broad path, but…

Constrói-me a casa… - by Ana Paula Tavares

{ Poem }

Constrói-me a casa
/ Com o barro de dentro
/ Entrelaça o colmo
/
/ Guarda dos caminhos
/ Guardião do fogo
/
/ Fixa um tronco aqui
/ E outro ali
/ Prepara…

Namibia - by Mvula Ya Nangolo

{ Poem }

I’ve returned here for many a reason
/ I’ll certainly live here for many a season
/ Like thousands of others I hear its…

La Casa - by Jorge Bustamante García

{ Poem }

a mia padre
/
/ Esta es la casa. Las ventanas abiertas
/ dejan caer la luz y una frágil
/ penumbra se esconde en los rincones.
/ Suaves…

Turakina Street - by Jean Mason

{ Poem }

I give you
/ these baskets and ’ei
/ made by my hands
/ in the old style
/ from plastic packing strips
/ my way of keeping alive those…

Tree - by Jane Hirshfield

{ Poem }

It is foolish
/ to let a young redwood
/ grow next to a house.
/
/ Even in this
/ one lifetime,
/ you will have to choose.
/
/ That great calm…

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