Xiaole Zhan



Tell Me Like You Mean It 8

When commissioning for this edition of Tell Me Like You Mean It, I gave one prompt to contributors: “Go bonkers! (If you want! So fine if not!)”

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There are wings – 羽 in the pagewind of translation – 翻

I would like to write a poem my mother can translate word for word. We sit either side of a long table & ask the world’s accountant for everything to balance out, for the poem to mean what it means. …

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rent free

I’ve been living in the atrium of somebody’s heart // there are seats here // like at the movies // my face glows from the screenlight like a thousand phones to the sky // at sunset // there are cobwebs …

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