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Masks and Balloons – Marzia Rahman
Photograph - Aritra Sanyal Back then, Baba sold balloons; Ma worked as a cook in two houses. And one roadside rice stall where she peeled loads of onions and cried a lot.I used to…...
An Albion Stomp – Daniel Paton
Walk in, drink up, walk out, repeat. The chit chat and shit chat get more frenzied with each stop and start as we flip flop about the city center. The moon starts…...
Mr. John Bingley Has Thirty-Nine Hats but No Heir – Marzia Rahman
I have thirty-nine hats, mostly fedoras, some panamas, and a few trilbies. Each of them holds onto their pride and price tags distinctly. Tightly.Too tightly, I believe. Like the grip of a coconut crab. I…...
The Perseids – Lukas Tallent
Krush said the meteors would streak the Tennessee sky after midnight. He would swing by his place, grab the missus, then join Beave and me at my parents’ house outside Etowah. By eleven, I had…...
Chambers and the Oases – James Storbakken
“The music hall, not poetry, is a criticism of life.”-James A. A. Joyce for Daan Yes, Thomas Gruewald sat by the fountain in the Pl. Nueva every Saturday and every Thursday. Yes, he waited until…...
Amenhotep’s Time – Dipen Bhattacharya
Translated from the original Bengali by Dipen Bhattacharya and Lisa Conyers. The sun was setting; the arches of the temple of the Empress Hatsepsut began to disappear into the darkness. My hands were red after…...
Green Adam, Grey Adam, Red Adam! – Sultan Alqaisi
Translated from the Arabic by Adam Lebzo. Twenty hours passed before Adam decided to wake up. He’d had a long day that felt more like half a week. And so, Adam had to…...
The Kiss – Cayce Pratt
A bell announced her arrival at the diner during the first hour of my shift. When she entered, she headed straight for the booth in the corner. The seat with the best view of the…...
Endless – Manoj Kumar Goswami
Translated from the Assamese by Ranjita Biswas. “Haraprasad, give me a packet of cigarette”Once a week Anadi buys a packet of cigarette from this corner stall selling paan of areca nut wrapped in betel leaf,…...
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Nicely done
Beautiful 😊😊👌🏽
Loved the way Debraj links it a full circle, though they're 3 characters from different novels. Kudos!!
Excellent translation doing full justice to the essence of the original poems