by Madina Tuhbatullina | Jul 21, 2023 | Poetry, Poetry 2023
Concave Seats Days that walk in slippers andbrush baby hairdid not hear fatherstell other tall men I madea mistake withcigarette interruptions her lilac dress suit and purse clickwelcome asphalt and kindergartenwith puppets inherited over hands ofchildren who hadn’t...
by Max Rothschild | Jul 21, 2023 | Poetry, Poetry 2023
For Dionne Brand, or, Another Person in Another Place Mysteries conjugate. Mystery conjugates. What becomes of clarity. In the final remove. Time as time. The past involves itself in the present to what degree? A unitary voice is always manifold, in combination. He is...
by Sam Warford | Jul 21, 2023 | Poetry, Poetry 2023
Us Us,romping in the uncut grasseswe gathered across decades.Us, our hands, squeezingthe desperate pigments from four soured walls.Us, singing with daytime vigorand doubts all heaven-bound. Us,and these word-taught lung whispers propping up the big ladder,watching the...
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...
