Villain/elle: Shimomura Cross Over in the Flat of the Night Bao Phi, in response to Roger Shimomura’s Shimomura Crossing the Delaware after Dylan Thomas and Lupe Fiasco Shimo’ cross over in the flat of the night Home of the coolie, displaced Native, land of the slave Paddle over tongues of water, Colonialist’s Delight. [Continue Reading...]
Mia Ayumi Malhotra Poems Crossing Seen from here, your distant dark’s a cut-paper silhouette, spindles wild along the sea’s hem– an endless forgetting. Land springs from the impossible seam between water & sky, our shadows stretch then shorten, smudge the hollows of your face gray with stuck sand, sallow light sucked in eyeholes, [Continue Reading...]
Dilruba Ahmed Alpana Sister, let’s get my story straight: one hand stains your shirts so the other can place rice on my child’s plate. I either sweat here or under a stranger’s weight. So when you boycott a storefront you’ll need a louder roar to scare off our global predator– let’s call him [Continue Reading...]
September 14th Kazim Ali SUTURE: a thread sewing two ends of a wound together. From the ancient Sanskrit word sutra, thread. All sources of wisdom that descend into the depths. FATHOM: to understand the dark deep reaches. From a nautical measurement ascertained by dropping a weighted thread down into the water. I’m [Continue Reading...]
Jeffrey Yang Lyric Suite Away in the loveable west, On a pastoral forehead of Wales, I was under roof here, I was at rest, [Continue Reading...]
Training Ground by Cathy Song appeared in The Asian American Literary Review, Issue 1 Training Ground | Cathy Song WARRIOR MONKS IN TALL WHITE HATS Backbone of the operation, the highly skilled, knife-performing chefs execute the boss’ name with reverence. “Manaja!”