poetry

Recycle

Anna Avdeeva

This poem is made of
100% reused characters,
recycled words.
It’s ego-friendly.
Its author is a golem
made of fibres and minerals
listed on cereal-box sides. [Read more...]

June Dimming

Heather Davidson

And then the summer night was straw,
all gathered together and the light
could not get through. I thought
of someone, I was always thinking
of someone that summer. Would he
come to see me, with deer antlers
held above his head and torn belt-loops
on his jeans?
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Hommage à Bonnefoy

W.F. Lantry

It is winter. Outside, the hills
are covered in moonlight
against frost. In a cold room
a man shuffles cards
in half darkness. [Read more...]

On the Occasion of a Book Burning That Very Nearly Happened

Grant Loveys

The heat keeps them rooted.
Heat within, heat without.
Flame refracted in the congregation’s eyes,
their own matchheads hidden
in the quiet space behind the pupil.
Raging. [Read more...]

Mouna Raga/Dawning

Sharanya Manivannan

How quietly the morning comes
in this city of cacophony, like
a woman without ankle bells,
suddenly standing at the door.

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Grandmother’s Mortuary Dress

Ilona Martonfi

Lacemaker with bone bobbins:
braided mesh with slim, oval leaves.
Plum on black silk. [Read more...]

Backyard Maintenance

George Moore

The impossible is never really there
only the shadow of the shadow
in the way you would ask me things

and then believe what I would say,
the moon is purposeful and green
on Leap Years and religious holidays, [Read more...]

A Sonnet on Wild Honey Pie

William Roby

I’m serious as Yoko, hand claps
nothing similar, none digital, no finger
pointing out a tiny word written on the ceiling. [Read more...]