DESTROYER OF UNIVERSES – Poems by Kevin Drzakowski
DESTROYER OF UNIVERSESBy Kevin Drzakowski
Just like everyone else, Iplayed that game Around the World,the one where you shootbaskets from different pointson your driveway, startingwith the intersection of cracksforming your makeshift free throw line,then around...
SUNDAY SCHOOL CHILDREN – A poem by Claire Emery
SUNDAY SCHOOL CHILDRENBy Claire Emery
Your Sunday best never fit you rightYou preferred your tar to come from cigarettesInstead of inside the plays of a leather-bound book of judgementYou can flick a lighter more comfortably...
GATHERING – Poems by Olivia Harman
GATHERINGPoems by Olivia Harman
Gathering
Today the gathering comes after the stormand I sit tight, my teeth pressed togetherlike keys in intricate locks,while outside that stillness starts gathering, a solemn warning, asking us to clear up...
OF PINE STREET – Poems by John Repp
OF PINE STREETPoems by John Repp
Of Pine Street
A confused tenderness, like a dimly bluish windowpane/Sings old songs… Fernando Pessoa (as Àlvaro de Campos)
Of Pine Street I sing, the impossible one frying eggs & toasting toastshe...
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TO MY FRIENDS, WHO NEVER LEFT HOME – Poems by Lucas Heilbroner
TO MY FRIENDS, WHO NEVER LEFT HOMEPoems by Lucas Heilbroner To My Friends, Who Never Left HomeIMy brothers peel their skin and leer-Eyes bugging-Through exhaust and broken corner stops.Reeling into thuggish scenes of postulated positioned...
PARTIAL ECLIPSE – Poems by Dustin Pickering
PARTIAL ECLIPSEPoems by Dustin Pickering
Partial EclipseI was hungover last nightand my poetry was weak, futile as curdled milk.I washed my face with warm waterand returned the pen to its inkwell.I am poisoned by official...
THE WAY AWAY – Poems by Anthony Slater
THE WAY OF TIM ASHPoems by Timothy Robbins
The Way of Tim Ash
You have a way of appearing, the chorus ina Satyr Play. The night before my hernia repairyou look better than you have in...
ANTIPOESÍA – Por Xe M. Sánchez
ANTIPOESÍAPor Xe M. Sánchez ANTIPOESÍA Andes a la gueta’l Paraísu.MuyerCochePerruXardínLlarPerresUna vida afayadiegaUna derrotaEntaína,Les escaleresQue baxenAl infiernuTanEsperándomos.Préstame’l fuéu.Préstame’l fuéu.Préstame’l fuéu.Préstame’lPrés…P… ANTI-POETRYYou are looking for a Paradise.A wifeA carA dogA gardenA houseMoneyA comfortable lifeA defeatLet’s go,StairsTo hellAreWaiting ForUsI like the...
LITTLE THINGS – Poems by Amanda Caroline Whitehurst
LITTLE THINGSPoems by Amanda Caroline Whitehurst
What You’ll Find
Wonder will be scratched up under your fingernailsand you won’t have time to pick it out.At your apartment window, where at nightyou can see into other windows...
TRANSATLANTIQUE – Poems by Janet McCann
TRANSATLANTIQUEPoems by Janet McCann
TRANSATLANTICmy mind slides down your voiceinto your house of fifty years agolaughter and lightly kissed cheeksthe bottle of wine and the bowl of peachesthat were never emptymy mind slides down your...