Poem:Acts of Love by Pam Rehm

If endear is earned
and is meant to identify
two halves

then it composes
one of meaning
which means
a token

a knot
a note

a noting in the head
of how it feels

to have your heart
be the dear one

Poem : Backside by Chika Sagawa(translated by Sawako Nakayasu)

Night eats color
flower bouqets  lose their fake ornaments
Day fall into the leaves
like sparkling fish
and struggles like the lowly mud,the
shape less dreams dreams and trees
nutured outside this shriveled
deridable despair, and the space that
was chopped down
tickles the weeds there
by it's feet
Fingers stained with tar from cigarettes
caress the writhing darkness
and then people move forward