Columbia Journal

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TRANSLATION – A Mortgage of the Moon by Sara Shagufta, Translated by Asad Alvi

A Mortgage of the Moon Our tears were given eyes we wrangled with our vivacity and became our own bans The hollering of stars reaches the earth before skies I untangled death’s hair and lengthened my lies Sleep plays with eyes a game of marbles

TRANSLATION – Fishhooks by Renée Vivien, translated by Cara Dees

Fishhooks One day, a Scotsman, a childhood friend, showed me his collection of fishhooks. “Look,” he said. “This is a real museum. These fishhooks you see are works of art. To lure salmon that feed on iridescent swarms of flies, we devise delicate fishhooks in gold, green, blue,