Category: Poetry
Issue 27 | Winter 2021
By
Andrew Johnson
| Poetry
Were they tall terns? Or meant to be herons?
Lined along the sill of your big bay window,
the small wooden birds your hard hands carved
as Christmas gifts for a dozen children,
Issue 27 | Winter 2021
By
David O'Connell
| Poetry
Those were the hours, infected,
we were aware of her body, the fever
wringing out the cloth of her, the sheets
a witness. This was a skirmish
in a war of attrition
Issue 27 | Winter 2021
By
Miriam Levine
| Poetry
Can’t find my shoes. Forget
them. Torn sheet? Forget that. The soft quilt drifts,
my cast-off reading glasses tilt sideways—
slippery sheet, blind glasses, orphan shoes:
a stage for drunken love though I’m sober.
Issue 27 | Winter 2021
By
SM Stubbs
| Poetry
The truth is I will never again see the mother
I know, the one always halfway through
four different books, or making the light
on the water perfect in her pastel landscapes.
Issue 27 | Winter 2021
By
Glen Armstrong
| Poetry
Soft light lands and pops
on your clavicles
like soap bubbles.
The restoration crew comes and goes
like field medics
Issue 27 | Winter 2021
By
Jane Zwart
| Poetry
Her heart two-steps, now flesh, now metaphor,
while her mind—the brain when it blushes—
gently nets a halo: thought bubbles and unlit bulbs.
Issue 26 | Fall 2020
By
Katherine Fallon
| Poetry
I liked the idea that I could make it go away
with words, but ultimately, they would find
nothing because I never wrote.
Issue 26 | Fall 2020
By
Cedric Rudolph
| Poetry
Instead, he finds the cardinal, drop of blood
flitting through the leaves, dancing where
the light moves a hand as it breaks here,
breaks there, casts shadow against ashen bark.