GERMAIN DROOGENBROODT (edited by) Become a River If you spend your entire life dealing with impostors and cheats, how can you be surprised when everyone recognizes you are a swindler? Anger threatens you most. Envy paralyzes you. You’re like dust…
The suitcase of Hermes
Poets of the World, Filipe de Fiúza, Portugal
«You are alone, with yourself, in yourself. You flow alone in something that sustains you. You are alone as a reaction to the force that sustains you in the flow of solitude.» «You who have ignited the light of super…
Parade of Poems
GERMAIN DROOGENBROODT (edited by) THE END OF THE FABLES Once upon a time, there was a fox … starts the rooster to compose a fable But perceives that it cannot work because if the fox hears the fable he will…
Uttering Her Name
SILVIA PIO (edited by) From Uttering Her Name, by Gabriel Rosenstock, Salmon Poetry 2009 Preface: Who is Dar Óma to whom these poems are addressed? Historically, or mythologically, she is the daughter of the god Oghma who gave the gift…
The sound of one hand clapping
Question: What is the sound of one hand clapping? Answer: Poetry. In occasion of the forthcoming publication of his book Changing, the British poet Richard Berengarten will be an international guest at the Silk Road Poetry Week in Xichang, Sichuan,…
Poets of the World, Hamza Hassan Sheikh, Pakistan
LAMENT OF A SCHOOL BOY My little body is drenched With my own blood My head is not with me My body is shattered too Now no one is able To recognize me. The cruel man dyed His filthy dreams…
Parade of Poems
GERMAIN DROOGENBROODT (edited by) SOMOZA UNVEILS THE STATUE OF SOMOZA IN THE STADIUM OF SOMOZA I do not believe that the people erected this statue to me because I know better than you that I ordered it myself. Neither do…