Lit-Mag #37 Myself & Others A Poem Illusions Work Better Than Truth Illusions work better than truth Plight of in limbo stateless Emigrant workers pledging out-of-bounds allegiance Homeless refugees abandoned by Fate Fault lines run deeper than Ever before pressure cooker tension Boiling over aflame with rage Steamy ethereal options evaporating scald Wages of evil… Charles Frederickson weiterlesen
Autor: Gerald Ganglbauer
Zdravka Evtimova
Lit-Mag #37 Myself & Others The Man with the Two Violins There had been no sun for three months now. The sky sank into the gray walls of the houses, at night the moon was a puddle of asphalt in the small lawn in front of her room. The rain turned her face into autumn.… Zdravka Evtimova weiterlesen
Jennifer Compton
Lit-Mag #37 Myself & Others Three Poems Dreaming You dreamed of me last night, didn’t you? Dreamed I was one of many just swimming in a school of fishes, wearing my black hat. How did I know you dreamed of me like that? Because I was awake while you were dreaming. Against the Pebble It’s… Jennifer Compton weiterlesen
Mirko Bozic
Lit-Mag #37 Myself & Others Poetry in Translation Kisa Mostar Kisa gori na bijeloj mostaskoj jeseni Vrejeme smrti poslije ponoci Misise na staklo posije pijanke Rain Mostar Rain is burning in the white Mostar autumn The time of death after midnight It smells of glass after a drinking party Caffe Dva upaljaca Kutija cigarette Jeden… Mirko Bozic weiterlesen
Lawrence Upton
Lit.-Mag #36 Home & Homecoming 4 Poems touch turn upon turn not getting there ornamental lines over rectangles lines broader than rivers’ flowing through streams they’ve cut, bleeding in soil lines harder and more impermeable than paths and tracks sharing a variety of straightness; while lands mark up, or dash about; somehow propelled, impelled by… Lawrence Upton weiterlesen
Egon Tenert
Lit.-Mag #36 Home & Homecoming Haiku Window shades shaken By the rain and autumn winds Good to have a home! Klappernde Fenster In Regen und Herbstwind. Wie gut ein Haus zu haben! Returning home at night How the hot tea is smelling In my steaming pot! Heimkehr am Abend – Wie duftet der heiße Tee… Egon Tenert weiterlesen
Horst Lothar Renner
Lit.-Mag #36 Home & Homecoming wie eh und je … innsbruck – eine reminiszenz ich liebe innsbruck immer noch der inn fliesst durch die stadt wie eh und je die mauern links und rechts kommst du von osten öffnen den spalt ins blau manchmal und nur der inn fliesst durch die stadt wie eh und… Horst Lothar Renner weiterlesen
Stephen Mead
Lit.-Mag #36 Home & Homecoming A Thousand Beautiful Things Life Support Feathers collected due to patterns or glint, and stones as well, depending on textures, ripples or mica sheen…so much of childhood condensed to palms or to pockets and what they could hold…milkweed pods, snail shells, wild grasses, flowers… Life reduced and then enlarged by… Stephen Mead weiterlesen
Nikola Madzirov
Lit.-Mag #36 Home & Homecoming They return three times sadder RETURN I open fearfully the door to draw a border with the sun rays upon the carpet. I feel like shouting, but the echo of the unfurnished room is faster than me. The sweat on the door-knob is not mine and the rush on my… Nikola Madzirov weiterlesen
John Leonard
Lit.-Mag #36 Home & Homecoming Was it somewhere else? NOT AT HOME There was a brighter rectangle In the paint next to the front door, Where someone’s name-plate had been Removed, and no new one put up. And that was my home—or was it Somewhere else, where in an attic I found a tattered flag,… John Leonard weiterlesen