Stuttered Budding in Six Poems – By George Angel
I write to my friend
who wears his indignation
like a paper hat
he thinks makes him
look ridiculous.
He says,
"Who am I to ask
others to listen to me?"
But...
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...
3 Poems – By Latha Ramakrishnan
O1.
Time on a Different Plane
Almost exactly at the moment when I thought
of the sentence
that poets have a different time-zone
my wrist-watch stopped showing the correct...
Poems by Luke Hankins
In Luke's poems, the words move across the page creating a visual, visceral parallel to the syntactical rhythm of the text. The eye moves...
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...
Switchblades on the Table – Poems by: María Ramírez Delgado
Translated from Spanish by : Billy B. Thompson
1. Switchblades on the Table
Let’s put two switchblades on the table.
Look at them and don’t let their...
Five Poems: By Miriam Sagan
1. Advent
let’s ask ourselves
what is possible—
orange berries
clinging to the thorns
the moon wanes
but like love
replenishes
if only a sliver remains
cattle in the dark field
angels on the...
Three Poems : By Michael G. Smith
How To Approach a Tree
As if it were the sole
being in a sea of hot sand,
its furrowed bark an open
gate to the pure land
you...
The Story of the Cat That Drank the Sea
Poem: Riyaz Qurana
Translated from Tamil by: Rajesh Subramanian
The drop that was sucked this afternoon
was the last one. The sea went dry.
From the moment the...
