Poetry

Poetry2022-01-20T08:48:31+00:00

After a Very Boring Date

GB

This was not worth coming out in the rain.

You tell me about your work as an attorney, defending investment banks and hedge funds.

From […]

Baeing of Hounds

Seth Brown

My heart is a house full of puppies
Who all run to the door when they see you through the window
Because they are hoping that you […]

DI DOVE SEI? DOVE VAI?

Stefano Bellin

Non ho né Itaca né mare
né Calipso né Sirene
vago senza meta
nel deserto di mezzo.

WHERE ARE YOU FROM? WHERE ARE YOU GOING?
I have neither Ithaca nor […]

Doris Day Was My Hero

Mary Ellen Talley

Does it even exist anymore?

I mean that K-Mart parking lot

where I lost my Viet Nam era

engagement ring on the asphalt,

shortly before holding the mic

to […]

Ekphrasis from Dry Land

Leopoldo Zampiccoli

Poem for the Piraeus Lion, a few days before leaving Venice.

a chimeric           belonging,

to where    […]

Heisenberg

Jodi Bosin

a squirrel on the porch is eating a chip

holding it with both hands

 

the ad before the news says “make the world your

workplace” and why the […]

iii

Aida Bardissi

(iii) عودة

عودة إلى الحب // return to love

i am a passport; a blood orange. i want to sit in your back […]

life cycles

Jess Roses

you have a man now. the times have changed

for us.

mine has gone back to the alleyways,

slinking with malintent.

 

we tied red threads (with intention!)

a Chinese finger […]

lovely morning

Griffin Elliot

cOttON

    SW     A   BS

Floating through

THE

SKY

 

Black tar roof shingles

Break orderly […]

Molecule

Laura Zaino

I have not come to understand. There is no merit in it.

We travel through rabbit holes to find the opposite ends, to see how they […]

nighthawk

RC deWinter

i undress slowly dropping my clothing stained with ashes and lust to the floor

then wrapped in your wings lie in the attenuated bed where my […]

Parable of the Constellations

Merridawn Duckler

You took my idea about the stars and put your name on it

until dawn came down and did darkness.

Your money rose higher and replaced one […]

Pere Lachaise

Griffin Elliot

Bury me

In Pere Lachaise

With my sunglasses on

So my grave will read

“He lays as he lived:

Cool and collected.”

And between the tombs

While leaves fall

And flowers wilt

My bones […]

The CFO

Rich Renner

I have a friend and for now I have decided to refer to him as Onslow

who works for a big company that required most of […]

Wild Dogs Know My Name

Donna J. Gelagotis Lee

Feeble dogs are licking my name

in the dirt. They are taking on

personas. I feel a bark rising

in my throat. I sense a pack […]

You’ll Find Your Way Back to the Pacific

Moctezuma Vailahi

It had been eight months since I dreamt of the whales

being in the water—trapped in glass—feeling their pain—stuck in there with them

I’d like to think […]

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