by Klaus Andrieu | Jul 21, 2023 | Poetry, Poetry 2023
Coitus, 1915, Egon Schiele I remember fondness dirtier. The stark contour, your touch. The things we’ll do bereft of nerves. The light’s hard. The rug burns. Where would I look for comfort in a body? A lover’s full weight only disappoints...
by Mario Gomez-Zamora | Jul 21, 2022 | Poetry, Poetry 2022
Encounters with the Memory of My Abuelo Abuelo, going back to the pueblo, the home, the place where I grew up, and not finding you there, makes me feel lost. I feel like I’m in a limbo, in an empty space … I cannot think, I just feel a lot of emotions emerging from...
by Kaia Sherry | Jul 21, 2022 | Poetry, Poetry 2022
Circular River Theory Process.ion 35, Urte Laukaiyte Bach and Us When I see a pond, I think of how you saw a koi fish orange yin stitched on its back and fattened by the waning light knowing the salt of its yang didn’t belong in soy-noted dipping...
by Juliana Roth | Jul 21, 2022 | Poetry, Poetry 2022
Three Johnny Carson Poems Plaque Depicting a Quail Chick, Unknown, Egyptian, Ptolemaic Period (332–30 BCE) The parrot in this one can talk The bird at first was rescheduled Johnny had bronchitis, could not speak the parrot she replaced died the night before air...
by Amanda Pruett | Jul 14, 2022 | Poetry, Poetry 2022
v v Process.ion 25, Urte Laukaityte And what of that black bat who wove through the yard in the early evening? Did it see us? Our synchronized eyes fixed to its wild circuit which just grazed the surface of the swimming pool before its upswing into the...
by Katana Smith | Jul 14, 2022 | Poetry, Poetry 2022
Hold Me Blue Gray Violet Wheel, Yvonne Estrada On the train a man tells me I look just like his daughter. He crosses many feet to say this: you look just like my daughter. He shows me a photo to prove it. He wears a reflective vest: maybe a construction worker,...
