2 Poems by Laila Brahmbhatt
Dusting of Scent
Dusting of scent
of white jasmines
from the shawls.
An old woman looks
at her wrinkled face
in the mirror.
Again,
she forgets
that her youth follows her
like the breath
of...
Poems by Laila Brahmbhatt
Turning 45
I smeared the birthday cake on my face
once for each of the 45 years,
a reminder that I am still alive,
and for each time...
Three Poems by Arvilla Fee
A Garden Past
I should have known
when blooms wilted
then dropped like confetti,
when leggy weeds sprang up
to swallow both rain and sun
that there was no...
Poems by James Croal Jackson
Rolling Acres Mall
America its malls resemble
the undead remains of capitalism
lavish this grapefruit la croix bubbled
to surface what cannot be informal
in which excessive...
Poems by Smitha Sailesh
Translated from the Malayalam by Ra Sh
Uprooting him
You still peer at me
raising your freezing eye lids,
perched on that branch of winter.
There are many secrets,
many...
Two Poems by Swati Moheet Agrawal
Moonlight Symphony
The moon was a woman last night,
distant,
immaculate.
She slid over the rooftops,
gliding gracefully,
touching the rim of the coffee mug I had forgotten to drink...
Poems by Francis Kurkievicz
Nelumbo Nucifera
In the silt blooms the Lotus
beyond the metaphysics of existence,
ignores the violet beauty of its petals
arranging colors
among the nauseating odors of the swamp;
Shine...
Poems by Fathima Valliyangal
The Woodpecker
God made me a woman
So my blood could flow
And nourish the famished trees
So the river becomes one
With what flushes out...
Margot – By David Harrison Horton
(Note: These poems use palimpsest and memory, framed within a context of chess game theory, to explore psycho-social relationships in the concrete and abstract.)
from...
Three Poems by Peycho Kanev
Garbage Man’s Song
The music lifted the sheet and the fingers
of the sun offered me scraps from the soul
of Sibelius. The question that follows is:...
