Poems by Karla Linn Merrifield
Gizmo Girl’s Touristy Snapshot
Two senoras, thirty-somethings,
sisters or girlfriends on Sunday’s day off,
working girls, maybe office staff, off-duty
hip to hip on a white tile banc
beneath...
Poems by Feng Yan
Seeing the mist again
I did not hear my childhood nickname
When smoke rose from kitchen chimney
Beside lake in foreign land
Willow trees embankment, sun setting
Birds song...
Poems by Devika Mathur
A Shadow
I am a woman of soft auburn dreams/ a soft noise that appears after a thunder/ you wish to dissolve my nectar into...
Four Poems by Anusha U
I hold the umbrella opened
The cuckoo sings a bhajan,
perhaps
learnt from its mother.
The river adjusts its course
swaying to and fro
falling back into its...
Three Poems By Anna Mary Haskal
Translated from Malayalam by Ra Sh (Ravi Shanker)
Head swarming with melancholy lice
Sometimes,
life imitates
the hair that cascades down
unknotting the tightest knots.
You cut it even as...
Poems by Miroslav Manasijević
Translated by Danijela Trajković
Karma
The Sun will outlast the day,
Van Gogh’s blue ear flies.
A whisper like the cut of destiny
Bleeds on the glass
Of peeled words.
You...
Poems by Michael Angel Martin
Cholina
When my mother dies
I learn I never knew her.
But she told me two stories,
two girlhood miracles.
At ten she saves her family
from a crocodile stalking
in...
Ears to Hear – Tanka by Gabriel Rosenstock
While the world cries about the burgeoning ecological crisis, below is a bilingual Tanka ( Irish-English ), suggesting that ecological wisdom was there all...
Poems by Michael G. Smith
During the fall of 2019 Michael G. Smith was a writing resident at Gullkistan Center for Creativity (http://gullkistan.is/). Gullkistan is located in the Icelandic...
Tanka by Gabriel Rosenstock
Gabriel Rosenstock’s Tanka Series – 9
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1.
and for no reason
people danced the whole day long
a joy to behold
and one...
