In the Garden of Earthly Delights

Joshua Daniel Edwin

After Bosch

Your reward is freedom:

you can cannibal
cleave off ears
whittle with your brothers
eat long pig.

String up the brunette:

outstretch his ecstasy of arms
tight as harpwires
rake his stave of ribs
stuff the apple in his mouth.

Shelter? In the whale-oil lantern.

Mortal sins punch your ticket here
welcome to my fiefdom
as pride predicates a fall
your will prepares my meals.

Joshua Daniel Edwin studied poetry and literary translation at Columbia University. His poetry haunts the internet courtesy of The Adirondack Review, Avatar Review, and Feathertale. His translations of Dagmara Kraus' poetry have appeared or are forthcoming with Asymptote, no man's land, Argos Books and Anomalous Press and were awarded a PEN Translation Fund grant in 2012. He is a member of the editorial board for the magazine Circumference: Poetry in Translation, which you can visit at circumferencemag.com.

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In This Issue

Kurt Beals
translating Anja Utler
...Carried Out
Jen Zoble
translating Melina Kamerić
...Adrenaline Memory
Sandra Kolankiewicz
...Desoto and the Pigs
Karen Carcia
...Box
...Stereopsis
...Sunday School
...The Arc of the Story
...Two
Harold Abramowitz
...from Blind Spot
Joshua Daniel Edwin
...Grüβ vom Krampus
...In the Garden of Earthly Delights
...During my Reign
Russell Valentino
...Pierre Menard's Alexander Blok
Elizabeth Catanese
...How We Stayed Together: A Graphic Flash
Nalini Abhiraman
...from Junk Movements
James D'Agostino
...Sign
...To Code Means We Have to Cut Skylights
...If We Lived Our Lives Like Songs
Brandon Holmquest
translating Gastón Fernández
...Apparent Story i
Ricardo Maldonado
...The Money Shot
...For Love
...Love-Seat by Arrest
...Layaway
...Heterosexuality as Custom
Eric Parker
...A Quick Lesson in Grammar
Cait Weiss
...This Is The Story
...The Whole Ending
Kate Click
...Bleach
Elizabeth Mayer
...To Carter
Mathias Svalina
...One Makes of Noise a Ladder
...The Body
...The Caretaker
...The Cave
...The Quiet American
Mike Edrington
...After Life