and after a brief, velvet / pause, the forest / screams back.
KUNDIMAN 20TH ANNIVERSARY POETRY PORTFOLIO
WIT TEA
Invisible Hooves
But I’d learned a thing or two from the cow, learned about things pretending to be other things.
KUNDIMAN 20TH ANNIVERSARY POETRY PORTFOLIO
First Prayer
Into my home, invited Anahita, divinity of waters / of giving me my daughters
TRANSLATION
from Hina
Translated from Dutch by Bo-Elise Brummelkamp
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