by Madeline Johnson | Jul 21, 2023 | Poetry, Poetry 2023
Renting a Room at Home My house is furnished with jars of tar and spit they don’t belong to me but take up the empty spaces Leave the TV on after dinner to drown the stillness with canned laughter or politicians on the evening news if the volume is loud...
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...
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...
