I CAN TELL NO-ONE, EXCEPT THIS POEM by Susan C. Waters
Age is Creeping Toward Me
Like the Old Maidin a children’s deck of cards,it was hidden, going round and roundthe table until the last card:a dowdy, with a misshapen hat.
Like a spider webnot seen on...
ALMA DESATADA by Roseangelina Baptista
Alma Desatada
A serração desceu rápida e do-í-da.Veio duma latência em rodeios Açorianos.Solitário rochedo, suspenso em fosca água-lusa.Longe, o coro das oliveiras ao léu.
Açores! Por quem te desatei as naus um dia...
Volátil, irado, vulcanizado.Mouro-Sefardita dum...
SONNET CDLXII by Terry Brinkman
Sonnet CDLXII
Deep velvet Azul of the Nile
Steely skies rolling ridge wheel
Gallivanting around as they kneel
Meadow of murmuring water has a Crocodile
As luck would have it a glass half full
Oli covering old sloppy eyes Ell
Solitaire...
ALL NIGHT by John Raffetto
VISITATIONTime becomes a pixilated memoryof bliss and bloodas the clock winds down.We pause to visit for a brief dazeas the foundation weakens while wonders compressinto petrified shadows a labyrinth of murky intrigueforgotten in repetitionas...
A COLUMN OF SMOKE by Sally Sandler
A Column of Smoke
ghosted west to the seaand I missed my off ramp
like most of the otherswho prayed to the fire gods
oh please, not me,and I saw from a distance
the mean residueof burnt chaparral...
I AWAIT HIS RETURN by Alex Koong
If there’s one thing I’ve learnedfrom the hours spent staringat the tiny airplane on the edgewhere the sky breaks the rock,
It’s that when scenery passesbetween two realities, flashes ofwhat was slowly replacing what is,
his...
THE SADDEST THING I’VE EVER SEEN by David Lenna
The Saddest Thing I’ve Ever Seen (Chapter I)
My left palm still hurts. Going, preparing without a backpack on my back. My left palm still hurts so much that my stomach feels like burning for...
SACRIFICE By Georgia Eugenides
SACRIFICEBy Georgia Eugenides THE SUMMER I NEVER HADin the morningi search for myself everywhere,under ivory sheets that smell of cinnamon, between porcelain jarson the highest kitchen shelf and among blue, crossed outpoems in my notebooki...
SEÑORITA BANTE! by Roseangelina Baptista
Bante!
Assim te chamei.
Entretanto, duvideique pudesses me ensinara arte de abraçar as coisascomo elas vêm para nós.
Como o invernodesiste de sina estação das flores,eu desisti de tinaquele diade Martin Luther King.
Para vir a entendernessa primavera,que...
INCONSTANTE CORAÇÃO by Roseangelina Batista
INCONSTANTE CORAÇÃOby Roseangelina Batista
INCONSTANTE CORAÇÃOPrelúdio ao poema de Ajahn Mun
Ora um fluxo de momentos,ora um fluxo de vazio presente.
A semântica do coraçãoEm realidades separativas—Movimento ou quietude.
Em movimento,A consciência rodopia multiforme,Metamorfoseando imagens pareadas—Bem e mal—emergem...