Category: Poetry
Issue 26 | Fall 2020
By
Cedric Rudolph
| Poetry
she knows where
the river winds itself around the cliffs,
where the snakes polish their lungs
in bile, where the darkness multiplies
in sleepless schools of fish
Issue 26 | Fall 2020
By
A. Molotkov
| Poetry
On the bottom
shelf,
my shadow.
The middle,
a mirror
holds my face.
Issue 26 | Fall 2020
By
John Sibley Williams
| Poetry
And a cloud in the shape of a sister. This womb
emptied of promise. That brief waking moment love
has no synonym.
Issue 26 | Fall 2020
By
Jake Goldwasser
| Poetry
I scramble for memory of space—
hippocampus dialed in and dialed back—receding,
swallowing whole boroughs,
reducing whole moods to neighborhoods.
Issue 26 | Fall 2020
By
Jonathan Dubow
| Poetry
Soak figs in wine.
Eat—on a white tablecloth—a debt of salt
(pickles, olives, smoked fish, and capers).
Issue 26 | Fall 2020
By
John A Nieves
| Poetry
What poem
would I write with those letters? What
(portrait on what wall?)
words?
Issue 26 | Fall 2020
By
Katherine Fallon
| Poetry
I never forgot. Our home, too, would be riddled
with moth dust and carpet beetles, dried pipefish,
bones waiting to be articulated and identifiable.
Issue 26 | Fall 2020
By
Elizabeth Dingmann Schneider
| Poetry
She’s much too young to understand our connection to Hawaii,
the heritage we’re tied to by marriage
and the bonds of ohana