Poetry in the Moment

a magical-realism tanka prose written on Pope Leo XIV's first day as dusk deepens a white-haired refugee's shadow slips into the chu...

one year older as sunlight floods the bedroom, a golden glow brightening each corner ... Death and I minds apart Chrysanthemum, 35, 2025 Ger...

paper lanterns dotting the inky sky ... news of another war German Translation Papierlaternen punktieren den tintenschwarzen Himmel ... Beri...

street theatre improv: in gathering dusk a clown marches back and forth jumps up and down, sways left and right to cast off his shadow Germa...

mountain pass -- lost with my old dog in a skylark's song German Translation Bergpaß. -- verloren mit meinem alten Hund im Lied einer Fe...

at 3 a.m. once again sleepless ... I open the curtains to let out silence and bring in moonlight Chrysanthemum, 33, 2024   German Translatio...

a rutted road to the slave cemetery ... an old woman bends under the weight of her ancestral past German Translation by Chrysanthemum Editor...

the border wall after gunshots after rain German Translation by Chrysanthemum Editorial Team die Grenzmauer nach Schüssen nach dem Regen Chr...

alone I sit through the end credits trying hard  to remember the film star with curly hair like my first love's Chrysanthemum, 31, 2023 ...

the milky way  between us an ocean apart Chrysanthemum, 31, 2023 German Translation by Chrysanthemum Editorial Team die Milchstraße zwischen...

chance encounter on my way to the bar -- twenty years shrink to that sultry night our dreams were entwined German Translation  Zufallsbegegn...

English Original caterpillar cloud,  my friend's autistic son  points at it with a smile like hers ... I nod while seeing nothing German...

a sliver of moon  in the predawn sky …  this short life  German Translation eine Scherbe vom Mond  im Vormorgengrauen ...  dieses kurze Lebe...

With a frown, the chief medical officer again remarks, "This is a marathon, not a sprint." "But even a marathon has a finish ...

a girl pirouetting alone in the cherry blossom rain as if tomorrow has yet to find her German Translation ein Mädchen  dreht Pirouetten alle...

self-quarantined the robopet shadows me from room to room German Translation in Selbstquarantäne  das Robo-Haustier beschattet mich  von Zim...

a sip of tea ... listening to winter sunlight German Translation by Chrysanthemum Editorial Team ein Schlückchen Tee ... dem Winter lausche...

a dream of wavy hairgrass I'm running after my beagle long deceased German Translation ein Traum vom Draht-Schmielengras ich laufe...

the silence between two veterans food bank lineup German Translation die Stille zwischen zwei Veteranen Suppenküchenschlange Chrys...

an updraft of petals in the hearse's wake another shooting German Translation by Chrysanthemum Editorial Team Blütenblätter wirbel...