Inside “On Endings”
“No ending—individual or collective—comes without transformation.”
On Endings • Curated by Xu Li
“What are the different gestures an ending can hold? What are its passages, its fugitivities?”
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ReadQuestions On When We’re Asked to See A Person & other poems
“Consider on the horizon: / Where are the persons made up in the language?” -
Readthe angels are falling
“My recklessness can fit on one hand: the divine is reserved for the thumb.” -
ReadA Poem is Not & other poems
“A tree’s wounds never heal, he reminds me, another fact from another day.” -
ReadNo Longer Shall We Mistake the Map for the Territory
“Long live the time beneath minerals, beneath runways and concrete and stainless steel docks.” -
ReadTo You, Who I Try to Meet Beyond the Boundaries of Names & other poems
“I near-remember and sometimes dream of standing in the morning shadow of this large looming thing, where even my hand in my mother’s feels cold.” -
ReadFor the Moment
“How is it that my memories exist in English from a time before I knew that language?” -
ReadPostscript & other poems
“This is localism, I think, the way the sound of the plot traverses the valley with its many hands, the way these ruptures slow time to a treacly syrup.”
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Community Anthologies: 2024ReadOn Prayer • Curated by Para Vadhahong
“A prayer can be a litany of desires; a call to action; an upholding of the self and the beloved; a life-giving elegy.”