Parting words

Polish the stone or the mind

A poem from Sarah Ruhl’s Love Poems in Quarantine

By Sarah Ruhl

Summer 2022

Taking a Morning Walk Alone to the Pond North of the Yuhsi After It Rained

“a pristine pond encircled by trees / last night’s rain scattered by the wind”

By Liu Tsung-yuan

Spring 2022

journey to emptiness

“his Buddhist robe / is drier than a yellow leaf”

By Tran Le Khanh

Fall 2021

Parting Words

“When the world / Disappears under your feet / Are you falling or / Flying?”

By Gary Lemons

Summer 2021

Wang Wei

“At my window / the rain raves, raves about dying”

By Arthur Sze

Spring 2021

Parting Words

An excerpt from the novel On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous

By Ocean Vuong

Winter 2020

heart sutra fragment 3

begun October 1, 2018 [for arthur mcgee, d. July 2018]

By mushim

Fall 2020

Inwardly

“I’m sick of peering at the ego. / No, my ego’s tired of peering at me— / It’s she who awakens me into being.”

By Jenny Xie

Summer 2020

Advice to Myself

“the screen / stays backlit and empty / thus I meet myself again / hopeful and useless / a mystery”

By Jane Hirshfield

Spring 2020

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