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Montri Umavijani is the foremost poet of Thailand. The poems which appear above are from his book The Peripatetic of Paradise, which was published in Bangkok last year in a small edition.
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November 19, 2019
We scuttle to a stop at the lake edge,
at the fat plop of a frog’s retreat
we always barely fail to see. Here
we’re ankled in spawn grown bolder:
earth crumbling aside instead of down,
at the fat plop of a frog’s retreat
we always barely fail to see. Here
we’re ankled in spawn grown bolder:
earth crumbling aside instead of down,
A Selected Text from Conjunctions:73, Earth Elegies
November 15, 2019
I was excited to help. The response here, officially, was bad. A lot of us knew we needed to react to that somehow. We wanted the victims to know that not everybody here felt like he did. But also, yeah, that’s the word for it, excited.
A Selected Text from Conjunctions:73, Earth Elegies
November 8, 2019
Shira thought she would buy furniture for the bedroom first. Kevin made attempts at saving his garden. Doreen pushed the dough down with the heel of her hand. Gabriel tried a new yoga pose. Cynthia and Steve went for a drive. Toby said, The weather is just great. Marybeth wore the same dress two days in a row.
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