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Behind the truth are other truths - Yang Licai "All Human Beings Who Suffer" transl. by Joshua Edwards and Lynn Xu

Rain makes a painting on the earth - Yang Licai "All Human Beings Who Suffer" transl. by Joshua Edwards and Lynn Xu

Meticulously depicting what's hidden - Yang Licai "All Human Beings Who Suffer" transl. by Joshua Edwards and Lynn Xu

Gradually expressing the outline from invisible to visible - Yang Licai "All Human Beings Who Suffer" transl. by Joshua Edwards and Lynn Xu

From solid state to a state of change - Yang Licai "All Human Beings Who Suffer" transl. by Joshua Edwards and Lynn Xu

Uses tears and exacting brush strokes - Yang Licai "All Human Beings Who Suffer" transl. by Joshua Edwards and Lynn Xu

To scrub away the silk threads of pain - Yang Licai "All Human Beings Who Suffer" transl. by Joshua Edwards and Lynn Xu

All in the end is water - Yang Licai "All Human Beings Who Suffer" transl. by Joshua Edwards and Lynn Xu


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Walking the toppled waste - Yang Lian "Venice Elegy 2 Rot Poem" transl. by Brian Holton

Where the Admiral gazes down - Yang Lian "Venice Elegy 2 Rot Poem" transl. by Brian Holton

Never afraid to wave good-bye - Yang Lian "Venice Elegy 2 Rot Poem" transl. by Brian Holton

Pass through time like swallows - Yang Lian "Venice Elegy 2 Rot Poem" transl. by Brian Holton

In the sound of colored glass violins - Yang Lian "Venice Elegy 2 Rot Poem" transl. by Brian Holton

Hear seabirds cackle like ghosts - Yang Lian "Venice Elegy 2 Rot Poem" transl. by Brian Holton

A curse locks a rusty wooden door - Yang Lian "Venice Elegy 2 Rot Poem" transl. by Brian Holton

Dragged into black moonlight - Yang Lian "Venice Elegy 2 Rot Poem" transl. by Brian Holton

Periscoping centuries pursue - Yang Lian "Venice Elegy 2 Rot Poem" transl. by Brian Holton


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in all the rearrangements of the stars - Jake Adam York "Letter Already Broadcast into Space"

Into the crease the freight train hits - Jake Adam York "Letter Already Broadcast into Space"

Where they keep your name - Jake Adam York "Letter Already Broadcast into Space"

The monuments of bronze or steel - Jake Adam York "Letter Already Broadcast into Space"

And make the granite hum beneath - Jake Adam York "Letter Already Broadcast into Space"

Looking for the sound of another way - Jake Adam York "Letter Already Broadcast into Space"

Slow as a shadow in my steps - Jake Adam York "Letter Written in Black Water and Pearl"

Names of flowers and warblers and stars - Jake Adam York "Letter Written in Black Water and Pearl"

Last breaths of the disappeared - Jake Adam York "Letter Written in Black Water and Pearl"

My ears clams with mouths full of sand - Jake Adam York "Letter Written in Black Water and Pearl"

Need a jukebox for a throat - Jake Adam York "Letter Written in Black Water and Pearl"

What the fog told them not to see - Jake Adam York "Letter Written in Black Water and Pearl"

The sound of a shadow forgetting - Jake Adam York "Letter Written in Black Water and Pearl"

Birds the color of history - Jake Adam York "Letter Written in Black Water and Pearl"

Our salts can't forget what water told them - Jake Adam York "Letter Written in Black Water and Pearl"

What stars once telegraphed to the river - Jake Adam York "Letter Written in Black Water and Pearl"

Dreams walk us back to the shore - Jake Adam York "Letter Written in Black Water and Pearl"

Fold the kerchiefs into herons - Jake Adam York "Letter Written in Black Water and Pearl"

From the eaves of moss and cypress - Jake Adam York "Letter Written in Black Water and Pearl"

The muscle gives back the bone - Jake Adam York "Letter Written in Black Water and Pearl"


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My favorite room for sleep - Emily Jungmin Yoon "American Dream"

Across the field lined with golden bells - Emily Jungmin Yoon "Bell Theory"

A cruelty special to our species - Emily Jungmin Yoon "Bell Theory"

On a field lined with forsythia - Emily Jungmin Yoon "Bell Theory"

Today you wear the cold - Emily Jungmin Yoon "Between Autumn Equinox and Winter Solstice, Today"

Winter has broken his windows - Emily Jungmin Yoon "Between Autumn Equinox and Winter Solstice, Today"

Sent lightning across glass - Emily Jungmin Yoon "Between Autumn Equinox and Winter Solstice, Today"

My heart wears you like curtains - Emily Jungmin Yoon "Between Autumn Equinox and Winter Solstice, Today"

No reason for logic in war - Emily Jungmin Yoon "An Ordinary Misfortune"

Brought an ecstasy of rosaries - Emily Jungmin Yoon "Say Grace"

Our shamans were women and our gods multiple - Emily Jungmin Yoon "Say Grace"

In front of women I didn't believe in - Emily Jungmin Yoon "Say Grace"

From those who serve different gods - Emily Jungmin Yoon "Say Grace"

Let us keep our stars to ourselves - Emily Jungmin Yoon "Say Grace"


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Altered its taste to bitter dishsoap - Ray Young Bear "The Aura of the Blue Flower That is a Goddess"

An impasse that gave us the weather - Ray Young Bear "The Aura of the Blue Flower That is a Goddess"

The luminescent mantle of the kerosene lamp - Ray Young Bear "The Aura of the Blue Flower That is a Goddess"

Perches on trampled cat tail reeds - Ray Young Bear "For You, a Handful of the Greatest Gift"

Because he dove unflinchingly to retrieve Earth - Ray Young Bear "For You, a Handful of the Greatest Gift"

Before a smoldering star's song - Ray Young Bear "Four Hinterland Abstractions"

Through its testament of cold light - Ray Young Bear "Four Hinterland Abstractions"

Ochre grains of distant battlefields - Ray Young Bear "Four Hinterland Abstractions"

A galaxy falling as snow - Ray Young Bear "In Pine, Arizona"

With pillars of swirling ice - Ray Young Bear "In Pine, Arizona"

Who rises to the cool and minty wind - Ray Young Bear "In the First Place of My Life"

Milkweeds dance-standing as the wind passes - Ray Young Bear "John Whirlwind's Doublebeat Songs, 1956"

With one talon over the wet snow - Ray Young Bear "Our Bird Aegis"

Caught in the blinding stars of the future - Ray Young Bear "To See as Far as the Grandfather World"

The vulnerable wire foundation of who we are not - Ray Young Bear "To See as Far as the Grandfather World"


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Fortunes in a dead language - Josephine Yu "The Compulsive Liar Apologizes to Her Therapist for Certain Fabrications and Omissions"

Dream each long, blank night - Josephine Yu "The Compulsive Liar Apologizes to Her Therapist for Certain Fabrications and Omissions"

The usual ration of air - Josephine Yu "The Failed Revolutionaries Apologize to Their Foreign Sponsors"

In a wilderness of cardboard boxes - Josephine Yu "A History of Home"

The rosary of envies - Josephine Yu "If I Raise My Daughter Catholic"

Powered by perpetual hindsight - Josephine Yu "Narcissist Revises Tidal Theory"

The metronome of regret - Josephine Yu "Narcissist Revises Tidal Theory"

Takes breath in pairs - Josephine Yu "Passages from the Travel Diary of Noah's Wife"

A down payment on restraint - Josephine Yu "Plea of the Penitent"

Tally the abandoned attempts - Josephine Yu "Prayer to Saint John the Dwarf: Against Giving Up"

Know the summons of the journey - Josephine Yu "Prayer to Saint Joseph: For the Restless"

Holding hands with his loneliness - Josephine Yu "Prayer to Saint Joseph: For the Restless"

The roughest fabric of the self - Josephine Yu "Prayer to Saint Joseph: For the Restless"

Write unsigned love letters - Josephine Yu "An Unfinished Fairytale from the Palm-Leaf Manuscript"

Gift of a forgotten godmother - Josephine Yu "An Unfinished Fairytale from the Palm-Leaf Manuscript"

If grief is a hotel - Josephine Yu "Veneration of the Anxious"


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The cold spell that catches us - Kevin Young "Ditty"

Gardenias blown about - Kevin Young "Ditty"

The wind won't go away so easily - Kevin Young "Dog Star"

The stars remain & do not grey - Kevin Young "Dog Star"

Nothing here tall enough to pretend to reach - Kevin Young "Dog Star"

Adding silent spices and hot sauce - Kevin Young "The Dry Spell"

Long after the roosters had crowed his name - Kevin Young "The Dry Spell"

These grim anchors - Kevin Young "Eulogy"

Do not weep but once - Kevin Young "Eulogy"

Splinters not silver - Kevin Young "Eulogy"

Spirit me into the six - Kevin Young "Eulogy"

Only the milk makes sense - Kevin Young "For the Confederate Dead"

Race instead against the almost rain - Kevin Young "For the Confederate Dead"

Sweat fighting the sleepwalking air - Kevin Young "For the Confederate Dead"

The bent shadows late in the day - Kevin Young "Halter"

The neighbor's boat not yet docked - Kevin Young "Halter"

Let the gods look away as always - Kevin Young "Hive"

Barely walking, bear us all there - Kevin Young "Hive"

Turning my knots to butter - Kevin Young "Hurricane Song"

Knowing the me only midnight sees - Kevin Young "Hurricane Song"

What anchors us to this thirst - Kevin Young "Ledge"

No use telling the dead - Kevin Young "Ledge"

How to go on without you - Kevin Young "Ledge"

The mercy of morning - Kevin Young "Ledge"

Can only be learned by living - Kevin Young "Ledge"

The dead do what they want - Kevin Young "Mantle"

Made real by photographs in silver frames - Kevin Young "Mantle"

What's watched now does the watching - Kevin Young "Mantle"

Take a left into the wrong skin - Kevin Young "Nightstick [A Mural for Michael Brown]"

Blow breath into your open mouth - Kevin Young "Nightstick [A Mural for Michael Brown]"

Dispersing its giant crowd of light - Kevin Young "Nightstick [A Mural for Michael Brown]"

Drink the day down - Kevin Young "Russet"

The dead have quit their midnight visits - Kevin Young "Snapdragon"

In sunlight at the start of summer - Kevin Young "Snapdragon"

The dandelion blooms in a garden of stone - Kevin Young "Snapdragon"

Only rain and your assistant answered - Kevin Young "Urgent Telegram to Jean-Michel Basquiat"


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Such a master of avoidance - C. Dale Young "Annunciation"

Honey-mouthed and persistent - C. Dale Young "Bloodline"

Who inhabited this fire - C. Dale Young "Curio"

Make of him a memento - C. Dale Young "Curio"

Force him to contend with stillness - C. Dale Young "Curio"

Fractured lines of light - C. Dale Young "Eclipse"

All four meanings of the word regret - C. Dale Young "Eclipse"

A more clinical name for breaking - C. Dale Young "The Hanged Man"

This hush love creates - C. Dale Young "Hush"

In the motion of surrender - C. Dale Young "In Pursuit"

A stubborn testament to an accident - C. Dale Young "Myth"

Capable of incredible lies - C. Dale Young "Myth"

With violent precision - C. Dale Young “Portrait in Graphite and Ornamental Hagiography”

No semblance of fear or distrust - C. Dale Young “Portrait in Graphite and Ornamental Hagiography”

Embracing everything indiscriminately - C. Dale Young “Portrait in Graphite and Ornamental Hagiography”

Fractured, divided to the quick - C. Dale Young “Portrait in Graphite and Ornamental Hagiography”

Found his singular calling - C. Dale Young “Portrait in Graphite and Ornamental Hagiography”

That betrays not wind - C. Dale Young "Praise"

Wish to be silent in this air - C. Dale Young "Praise"

To find loneliness among them - C. Dale Young "Ruins"

Memory refuses to yield - C. Dale Young "The Second Fallacy"

Not tenderness in the eye - C. Dale Young "The Second Fallacy"

Forced to contend with gravity - C. Dale Young "The Sixth Sense"

After earnest but beautiful failures - C. Dale Young "The Vista"

Cannot illuminate every dark corner - C. Dale Young "What Is Revealed"

As if color were too expensive - C. Dale Young "The Wolf"

Dreaming of the night's decadence - C. Dale Young "The Wolf"


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this blue refrain sings of comfort - Monica Youn "Blueacre"

the barest rune of ruin - Monica Youn "Blueacre"

a chessboard pawn that rears up into a castle - Monica Youn "Blueacre"

the shadow zone at the core of the flame - Monica Youn "Blueacre"

sewn back into its cocoon - Monica Youn "Blueacre"

no less binding for being silken - Monica Youn "Blueacre"

Switched on a black light in the sky - Monica Youn "Four Freedoms Park"

The traceries of dread just visible - Monica Youn "Four Freedoms Park"

The curving trajectories of each possible disaster - Monica Youn "Four Freedoms Park"

Mugwort sheared to resemble a lawn - Monica Youn "Four Freedoms Park"

Neural pathways tunneled out by fear - Monica Youn "Four Freedoms Park"

The winsome insinuations of bindweed - Monica Youn "Four Freedoms Park"

Its body a copse of sumac - Monica Youn "Four Freedoms Park"

Will ride the horses made of straw - Monica Youn "Four Freedoms Park"

A luxury of specific intention - Monica Youn "Four Freedoms Park"

The monument's honed granite perpendiculars - Monica Youn "Four Freedoms Park"

a steel ring cast over what I know - Monica Youn "A Guide to Usage: Mine"

concealing an infinity of hairtrigger malice - Monica Youn "A Guide to Usage: Mine"

that sheaths its lethal secret in silence - Monica Youn "A Guide to Usage: Mine"

this field I have seeded with violence - Monica Youn "A Guide to Usage: Mine"

build dark dwellings of negative space - Monica Youn "A Guide to Usage: Mine"

knit a linked network of nothing - Monica Youn "A Guide to Usage: Mine"

equal parts atom and emptiness - Monica Youn "A Guide to Usage: Mine"

invades fractally by rhizome and root - Monica Youn "A Guide to Usage: Mine"

What you already know to be expendable - Monica Youn "Leave"

in the trellised garden you are becoming - Monica Youn "Self-Portrait in a Wire Jacket"

the body a dichotomy of flesh and blood - Monica Youn "Self-Portrait in a Wire Jacket"

rendered as a grouping of ovals - Monica Youn "Study of Two Figures (Ignatz/Krazy)"

Suggests the possibility of enlightenment - Monica Youn "Study of Two Figures (Ignatz/Krazy)"

your body rendered glasslike by fire - Monica Youn "Whiteacre"

lift the light free of its verticals - Monica Youn "Whiteacre"

carry it blazing through your irradiated life - Monica Youn "Whiteacre"


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No paths lead out - Jane Yolen "All Paths Lead Here"

No compass but the heart - Jane Yolen "Autumn Song of the Goose"

Still as gravestones and as hard - Jane Yolen "Baba Yaga Has Tea with Kostchai the Deathless"

Waiting is a coffin - Jane Yolen "Behind a Closed Door"

Across the earless face of the moon - Jane Yolen "Bird Watcher"

Winter silences us - Jane Yolen "Bird Watcher"

Answer only with my eyes - Jane Yolen "Bird Watcher"

Letters written in the air - Jane Yolen "Call and Response"

Earth holds all the answers - Jane Yolen "Call and Response"

Like a fence made of bones - Jane Yolen "Fence of Bones"

Fast-forward into a bleaker future - Jane Yolen "Fence of Bones"

An invitation to applause - Jane Yolen "The Forest Opens Like a Yawn"

With burdens of old leaves - Jane Yolen "Here Where the Path of Healing Starts"

On their way to a stainless heaven - Jane Yolen "Here Where the Path of Healing Starts"

Broken on the wall of time - Jane Yolen "I See a Bony Hand First"

Makes no good first impression - Jane Yolen "Little House in the Wood"

Hunger is a bad companion - Jane Yolen "A Long Walk to Nowhere"

Nowhere becomes my destination - Jane Yolen "A Long Walk to Nowhere"

Like a lemon too long on the shelf - Jane Yolen "Making Jokes"

Unless you count bad dreams - Jane Yolen "Mortar/Pestle"

Whatever I forget is gone - Jane Yolen "Never Look Back"

Goodbyes are not an option - Jane Yolen "Never Look Back"

Wake up in pieces - Jane Yolen "Papa Says, Mama Says"

As brief as grace notes - Jane Yolen "Song/Birds"

Over a flower's invitation - Jane Yolen "Time Piece"

Over the endless sea of my leaving - Jane Yolen "Washing Away the Filth"

The luck of spring winds - Jane Yolen "Winter Finch"

Make their living out of sleep - Jane Yolen "Winter Song of the Weasel"


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Buckets of bubbling tar and champagne - John Yau "Charles Baudelaire and I Meet in the Oval Garden"

Invited into our hopping choir - John Yau "Charles Baudelaire and I Meet in the Oval Garden"

Your subdivisions and high rises - John Yau "Charles Baudelaire and I Meet in the Oval Garden"

Riding a bicycle towards the ceiling - John Yau "Music from Childhood"

Leading to the valleys of dust - John Yau "Overnight"

A bowl and a cup are not ideas - John Yau "A Painter's Thoughts"

The past sticks to the present like glue - John Yau "Russian Letter"

Change the clothes in which their soul was born - John Yau "Russian Letter"

Master of the black and green darkness - John Yau "Russian Letter"


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The heavens' embroidered cloths - W.B. Yeats "Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven"

Spread my dreams under your feet - W.B. Yeats "Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven"

The pilots of the stars of tears - William Butler Yeats "Anashuya and Vijaya"

Flaming founts of duty - W.B. Yeats "The Countess Cathleen in Paradise"

That music in her face - W.B. Yeats "The Countess Cathleen in Paradise"

If time were but gone - W.B. Yeats "Crazy Jane on the Day of Judgment"

Came and were gone - William Butler Yeats "Cuchulain Comforted"

Under starlight or the sun - W.B. Yeats "Cuchulain's Fight with the Sea"

Who made you bitter made you wise - W.B. Yeats "Cuchulain's Fight with the Sea"

The mournful wonder of his eyes - W.B. Yeats "Cuchulain's Fight with the Sea"

Fought with the invulnerable tide - W.B. Yeats "Cuchulain's Fight with the Sea"

With white feet of angels seven - W.B. Yeats "A Dream of a Blessed Spirit"

Near no accustomed hand - W.B. Yeats "A Dream of Death"

The indifferent stars above - W.B. Yeats "A Dream of Death"

His heart unsatisfied - W.B. Yeats "Ego Dominus Tuus"

Hour of gentleness - William Butler Yeats "Ephemera"

New from the world - W.B. Yeats "A Faery Song"

The waning of love has beset us - W.B. Yeats "The Falling of the Leaves"

The season of passion forget us - W.B. Yeats "The Falling of the Leaves"

The worst of all bad names - W.B. Yeats "Father and Child"

On whose ancient wings - W.B. Yeats "Fergus and the Druid"

Burden without end - W.B. Yeats "Fergus and the Druid"

Dreaming wisdom - W.B. Yeats "Fergus and the Druid"

To be another’s dream - W.B. Yeats "Fergus and the Druid"

This little bag of dreams - W.B. Yeats "Fergus and the Druid"

Dance like a wave of the sea - W.B. Yeats "The Fiddler of Dooney"

If empty night replies - W.B. Yeats "A First Confession"

By that great glory driven wild - W.B. Yeats "From the 'Antigone'"

Descends into the loveless dust - W.B. Yeats "From the 'Antigone'"

Her hidden joy - W.B. Yeats "He bids his Beloved be at Peace"

Drowning love’s lonely hour - W.B. Yeats "He bids his Beloved be at Peace"

Deep twilight of rest - W.B. Yeats "He bids his Beloved be at Peace"

To the water in the West - W.B. Yeats "He reproves the Curlew"

Falling on dream-dimmed eyes - W.B. Yeats "He tells of a Valley full of Lovers"

A hater of the wind - W.B. Yeats "He thinks of his Past Greatness when a Part of the Constellations of Heaven"

Have only my dreams - W.B. Yeats "He wishes for Cloths of Heaven"

All night’s fathomless wisdom - W.B. Yeats "Her Dream"

Eternity may dwindle - W.B. Yeats "His Bargain"

Before the thread began - W.B. Yeats "His Bargain"

What payment were enough - W.B. Yeats "His Confidence"

Out of a desolate source - W.B. Yeats "His Confidence"

Empty your heart - W.B. Yeats "The Hosting of the Sidhe"

The night grows rough - W.B. Yeats "'I am of Ireland'"

Discoverers of forgotten truth - W.B. Yeats "In Memory of Major Robert Gregory"

As the outrageous stars incline - W.B. Yeats "In Memory of Major Robert Gregory"

Discourtesy of death - W.B. Yeats "In Memory of Major Robert Gregory"

A meteor of the burning heart - William Butler Yeats "The Indian to his Love"

The nets of wrong and right - W.B. Yeats "Into the Twilight"

Come clear of the nets - W.B. Yeats "Into the Twilight"

Less kind than the gray twilight - W.B. Yeats "Into the Twilight"

Impulse of delight - W.B. Yeats "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death"

For always night and day - W.B. Yeats "The Lake Isle of Innisfree"

Peace comes dropping slow - W.B. Yeats "The Lake Isle of Innisfree"

In the deep heart’s core - W.B. Yeats "The Lake Isle of Innisfree"

Endure the timid sun - W.B. Yeats "Lines Written in Dejection"

With words lighter than air - W.B. Yeats "The Lover asks Forgiveness because of his Many Moods"

Hearts of wind-blown flame - W.B. Yeats "The Lover asks Forgiveness because of his Many Moods"

All things longing for rest - W.B. Yeats "The Lover asks Forgiveness because of his Many Moods"

Time’s bitter flood - W.B. Yeats "The Lover pleads with his Friend for Old Friends"

In the deeps of my heart - W.B. Yeats "The Lover tells of the Rose in his Heart"

Mad as the mist and snow - W.B. Yeats "Mad as the Mist and Snow"

That awakened the stars - W.B. Yeats "Maid Quiet"

Blowing through my blood - W.B. Yeats "Maid Quiet"

Words that called up the lightning - W.B. Yeats "Maid Quiet"

No comfort in the grave - W.B. Yeats "The Man who dreamed of Faeryland"

Worn out with dreams - W.B. Yeats "Men Improve with Years"

The murderous stealth of day - W.B. Yeats "Parting"

Sleepless Candle - W.B. Yeats "The Phases of the Moon"

The crumbling of the moon - William Butler Yeats "The Phases of the Moon"

Afterwards the world - William Butler Yeats "The Phases of the Moon"

Hid in the heart of love - W.B. Yeats "The Pity of Love"

That my old care may cease - W.B. Yeats "The Poet pleads with the Elemental Powers"

Unfold your flaming wings - W.B. Yeats "The Poet pleads with the Elemental Powers"

The nets of day and night - W.B. Yeats "The Poet pleads with the Elemental Powers"

Victories of the mind - W.B. Yeats "The Sad Shepherd"

Beauty's ignorant ear - W.B. Yeats "The Scholars"

Of defeated dreams - W.B Yeats "The Secret Rose"

The world on dreaming fed - William Butler Yeats "The Song of the Happy Shepherd"

Truth is now her painted toy - William Butler Yeats "The Song of the Happy Shepherd"

The cracked tune that Chronos sings - William Butler Yeats "The Song of the Happy Shepherd"

The seed of the fire - W.B. Yeats "The Song of the Old Mother"

Till time and times are done - W.B. Yeats "The Song of Wandering Aengus"

Where flapping herons wake - William Butler Yeats "The Stolen Child"

That scarce could bathe a star - William Butler Yeats "The Stolen Child"

The tall thought-woven sails - W.B. Yeats "They went forth to the Battle, but they always fell"

Above the tide of hours - W.B. Yeats "They went forth to the Battle, but they always fell"

To smile upon her stars - W.B. Yeats "They went forth to the Battle, but they always fell"

Amid the wandering, starry mirth - W.B. Yeats "They went forth to the Battle, but they always fell"

From the sea's sad lips - W.B. Yeats "They went forth to the Battle, but they always fell"

Where the dim tides are hurled - W.B. Yeats "They went forth to the Battle, but they always fell"

Upon the wharves of sorrow - W.B. Yeats "They went forth to the Battle, but they always fell"

Grown sad with its eternity - W.B. Yeats "They went forth to the Battle, but they always fell"

Under the same white stars - W.B. Yeats "They went forth to the Battle, but they always fell"

Give three things back - W.B. Yeats "Three Things"

What most could shake his soul - W.B. Yeats "Tom at Cruachan"

Put my thoughts astray - W.B. Yeats "Tom the Lunatic"

Pure unchanging night - W.B. Yeats "Tom the Lunatic"

When an immortal passion breathes - W.B. Yeats "The Travail of Passion"

Crowded with bitter faces - W.B. Yeats "The Travail of Passion"

Look up to me alone - William Butler Yeats "Two Songs of a Fool"

Dowered the stars - W.B. Yeats "The Two Trees"

Master of the still stars and of the flaming door - W.B. Yeats "The Valley of the Black Pig"

Fed the heart on fantasies - W.B. Yeats "VI - The Stare's Nest By My Window"

More substance in our enmities - W.B. Yeats "VI - The Stare's Nest By My Window"

Of their shadows deep - W.B Yeats "When You Are Old"

Moments of glad grace - W.B Yeats "When You Are Old"

Amid a crowd of stars - W.B Yeats "When You Are Old"

Your changing face - W.B Yeats "When You Are Old"

Hid his face amid a crowd of stars - W.B. Yeats "When You Are Old"

Time would surely forget - W.B. Yeats "The White Birds"

White birds on the foam - W.B. Yeats "The White Birds"

The blue star of twilight - W.B. Yeats "The White Birds"

Where Time would surely forget us - W.B. Yeats "The White Birds"

Far from the rose and the lily - W.B. Yeats "The White Birds"

Before I had well finished - W.B. Yeats "The Wild Swans at Coole"

In noble rage replied - W.B. Yeats "Young Man's Song"

And beat upon the bone - W.B. Yeats "Young Man's Song"

To my offended heart - W.B. Yeats "Young Man's Song"


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The ancients had their mountains of sorrow - Yang Wan-li "Relaxing in the Evening in My Study, the Wo-chi-chai" transl. by Burton Watson

A lone cicada urges on the evening sun - Yang Wan-li "Relaxing in the Evening in My Study, the Wo-chi-chai" transl. by Burton Watson

Each step from the moon - Yanyi "Landscape with a Hundred Turns"

The light retires to the lamp - Yao Feng (aka Yao Jingming) "Searching for Light" transl. by Julia Sanches

And instructs it in shadow - Yao Feng (aka Yao Jingming) "Searching for Light" transl. by Julia Sanches

You will enter into the dust - Khoja Ahmed Yasawi "Hikmet (2)" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun and Rachel Harris

Both alike are wind-driven weeds - Yin Shih "Parting from the Courtier Sung" transl. by Burton Watson

When the raven's cry comes on the night wind - Yin Shih "Parting from the Courtier Sung" transl. by Burton Watson

Mottled with creeping rust stains - Shuyi Yin "Growing Chair"

Fly away, sprout and grow again in another place - Shuyi Yin "Growing Chair"

Remove some barrier from the road - Eva Rose York "I Shall Not Pass this Way Again"

This song is fugitive in rapture - Marguerite Young "Song's Preface"

Lean into the lightning shaft of pain - Marguerite Young "Song's Preface"

Contrives her delicate masonry - Marguerite Young "Spring"

With you at the center of my thoughts - Moon Bo Young "Life Centered Around" transl. by Hedgie Choi

Spins with no intention to arrive - Moon Bo Young "Life Centered Around" transl. by Hedgie Choi

The pain orbits around Jupiter - Moon Bo Young "Life Centered Around" transl. by Hedgie Choi

Pick a sky and name it - Saadi Youssef "Freedom" transl. by Khaled Mattawa

Steady yourself on a foothold of earth - Saadi Youssef "Freedom" transl. by Khaled Mattawa

Give wings to the children of earth below - Saadi Youssef "Freedom" transl. by Khaled Mattawa

Grasping arms out of elsewhere - Timothy Yu "Chinese Dream 61"

In the bedtime story she tells herself - Timothy Yu "Chinese Dream 61"

The moments etching space - Yu T'ung "Autumn Night" (translated by A.M. Juster)

And countless feelings leave no trace - Yu T'ung "Autumn Night" (translated by A.M. Juster)

Wind and rain await the opening flower - Yu Wu-ling "Offering Wine" transl. by Burton Watson

Do not disdain its brimming gift - Yu Wu-ling "Offering Wine" transl. by Burton Watson

Her pencil is dipped in heaven - Pamelia Vining Yule "The Beautiful Artist"


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Arrived in flux and the background radiation - James F. Yockey "What If"

The remnants of music played and played again - James F. Yockey "What If"

If I had arrived in the middle of that storm - James F. Yockey "What If"

The heavy jackfruit bent with the weight of gravity - James F. Yockey "What If"

The weight of gravity toward that secret center - James F. Yockey "What If"

In an irridescent orange back-lit with coffee - James F. Yockey "What If"

Would clouds rain down nails from the heavens? - James F. Yockey "What If"

A small star into orbit and revolution - James F. Yockey "What If"

When each particle and anti-particle collided - James F. Yockey "What If"

Until the next singularity comes along - James F. Yockey "What If"


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Inside me a need to tell the truth - Kamelya Omayma Yousseff "Amto remembers Hussein, Aljibbayn 1983"

The stars are a map in the noon of it all - Kamelya Omayma Yousseff "In the ن of it all"

A relic from a gone civilization - Kamelya Omayma Yousseff "In the ن of it all"

The whale swallowed the sun - Kamelya Omayma Yousseff "In the ن of it all"

Whispering friends in the noon of it all - Kamelya Omayma Yousseff "In the ن of it all"

You hold the broken in me - Kamelya Omayma Yousseff "In the ن of it all"

You hold the setting sun - Kamelya Omayma Yousseff "In the ن of it all"

You escape the mouth of death - Kamelya Omayma Yousseff "In the ن of it all"

Reconstituted in the noon of the universe - Kamelya Omayma Yousseff "In the ن of it all"

Through some starcrossed lineage - Kamelya Omayma Yousseff "In the ن of it all"

Awaiting rebirth after apocalypse - Kamelya Omayma Yousseff "In the ن of it all"

A noon as the beginning and end of existence - Kamelya Omayma Yousseff "In the ن of it all"


Poet's page at poets.org.


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The one stitched to your soul - Yee Heng Yeh "Lost and Found"

As it was when you lost it - Yee Heng Yeh "Lost and Found"

Left your memories back in the skull - Yee Heng Yeh "Lost and Found"

Wiped clean the instant you exited - Yee Heng Yeh "Lost and Found"

As many vessels as there are lost souls - Yee Heng Yeh "Lost and Found"

The waters won't be sentimental - Yee Heng Yeh "Lost and Found"

We played the song of her spring - Yee Heng Yeh "Song"

A playlist that unfolded across her decades - Yee Heng Yeh "Song"

Steer her through a dream lasting lifetimes - Yee Heng Yeh "Song"


Poet's bio at Strange Horizons website.


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Your horror froze-over to silence - Connor Yeck "The Thing (1982) as Silent Film"

Scream thrown back to arctic stars - Connor Yeck "The Thing (1982) as Silent Film"

Music become wind tunnel - Connor Yeck "The Thing (1982) as Silent Film"

By the flamethrower's pilot light - Connor Yeck "The Thing (1982) as Silent Film"

Track their breaths in the freeze - Connor Yeck "The Thing (1982) as Silent Film"

The only alchemy I care to learn - Connor Yeck "The Thing (1982) as Silent Film"

A carrion flower never in bloom - Connor Yeck "The Thing (1982) as Silent Film"

His voice heard around the corner - Connor Yeck "The Thing (1982) as Silent Film"


Poet's bio at Strange Horizons website.


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Shadow in pursuit of form - Yang Fang "The Joy of Union" transl. by Burton Watson

The loadstone beckons to the long needle - Yang Fang "The Joy of Union" transl. by Burton Watson

Wadding from a concord of cocoons - Yang Fang "The Joy of Union" transl. by Burton Watson

The felt mat seats us shoulder to shoulder - Yang Fang "The Joy of Union" transl. by Burton Watson

Going, we share the very same dust - Yang Fang "The Joy of Union" transl. by Burton Watson

In no act forsaking one another - Yang Fang "The Joy of Union" transl. by Burton Watson


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The seeds of a thousand saplings - Yi Lei "Nature Aria" transl. by Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi

Wind without borders - Yi Lei "Nature Aria" transl. by Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi

Small gifts laden with love's intentions - Yi Lei "Nature Aria" transl. by Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi

Fistfuls of rain fall hard - Yi Lei "Nature Aria" transl. by Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi

Fill my heart with mud - Yi Lei "Nature Aria" transl. by Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi

A ghost beyond her own reach - Yi Lei "A Single Woman's Bedroom" transl. by Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi

Winter jasmine wilts in its glass vase - Yi Lei "A Single Woman's Bedroom" transl. by Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi

To kneel before the heart - Yi Lei "A Single Woman's Bedroom" transl. by Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi

Skitter away from certainties - Yi Lei "A Single Woman's Bedroom" transl. by Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi

That thief already scheming to break free - Yi Lei "A Single Woman's Bedroom" transl. by Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi

The magnificent extravagance of my beloved stilettos - Yi Lei "A Single Woman's Bedroom" transl. by Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi

Interrupted by relief - Yi Lei "A Single Woman's Bedroom" transl. by Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi

Always at a distance from reality - Yi Lei "A Single Woman's Bedroom" transl. by Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi

I don't picnic on Sundays - Yi Lei "A Single Woman's Bedroom" transl. by Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi

Singing from breakfast to tea - Yi Lei "A Single Woman's Bedroom" transl. by Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi

Music pushes back against pain - Yi Lei "A Single Woman's Bedroom" transl. by Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi

The mountain of art and philosophy - Yi Lei "A Single Woman's Bedroom" transl. by Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi

The storm stopped the clock - Yi Lei "A Single Woman's Bedroom" transl. by Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi

Stopped the clock that chases me - Yi Lei "A Single Woman's Bedroom" transl. by Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi

Occupy the walls that surround me - Yi Lei "A Single Woman's Bedroom" transl. by Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi

Galloping into the distances of the universe - Yi Lei "A Single Woman's Bedroom" transl. by Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi

No roads in the black night - Yi Lei "A Single Woman's Bedroom" transl. by Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi

A step into absence - Yi Lei "A Single Woman's Bedroom" transl. by Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi

A private galaxy that stretches on stubbornly - Yi Lei "A Single Woman's Bedroom" transl. by Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi

Has gotten a bonfire of support - Yi Lei "A Single Woman's Bedroom" transl. by Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi

Authority flings a struck match in our direction - Yi Lei "A Single Woman's Bedroom" transl. by Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi

Only time knows who is who - Yi Lei "A Single Woman's Bedroom" transl. by Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi

Fear and fear's twin, rage - Yi Lei "A Single Woman's Bedroom" transl. by Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi

Law squints out from its burrow - Yi Lei "A Single Woman's Bedroom" transl. by Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi

This city of riches has fallen empty - Yi Lei "A Single Woman's Bedroom" transl. by Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi

Something invisible blocks every road - Yi Lei "A Single Woman's Bedroom" transl. by Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi


Poet's page at poets.org.


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