by Sarah Carleton My dad is not walking around the house,his knee making a little ping, his cane rocking the backbeat,and he isn’t telling the same joke five times or working his waythrough a story about a neighbor who knew a guy who was the cousinof an old college friend…
by Ihor Pidhainy Bread and potatoes, Add a dollop of cream, A cabbage, a beat, a carrot, And the occasional cutlet or chicken, And you have your diet Foolproof for centuries Unless a famine strikes, Your neighbor steals your grain, And other crops are siphoned off. Your children and parents thin out And die, and you hobble along Until your neighbor…
by Yuan Changming During the great flood Noah hid himself in the ark While Dayu tried to contain it With his bare hands Prometheus stole fire From Olympian gods While Sui Ren got it By drilling wood hard Smart Daedalus crafted wings To fly away from his prison-tower While Old Fool removed the whole Mountain blocking his way …
by Sarah Carleton A single hummingbird measures the crash and pull of waves beneath a wide sky. No green shimmer and near-invisible flight—the sprite holds still,black as a quarter note. Palms twice the girth of the ones back home rise into the clouds.Royal palms, they’re called, a name that tastes British, like…
by Yuan Changming With their most tender touches, snowflakes Have painted the whole night white, Including the darkest corner in sight Even within a forgotten dream Except the plum tree, standing alone there Under the eastern sky, whose Flowers are blooming boldly against The entire season, more vibrant than blood
by Rose Mary Boehm 1 The first time I met death I didn’t crumble under its weight. I was very young but recognized that something important had changed. I hadn’t known her that well, but she had been kind, and I would miss her once I understood. 2 They knocked with a big knock. I almost…
by James Sennett chair was not Bonnie’s. How could it be? None of the telltale slouching evident in the faded cushions made of crushed flowers of indiscriminate species. Fitting just so for the visitor to lounge for a bit before taking the money of the neighbor you hated for stealing your recipe of some pie or other. Like it mattered anyway.
by John Grey you speak in lakes and dead mothers the universe nests like water in your head for a swimmer like you there’s no such thing as drowning just prayers for anything floating on the surface of the years gone by the mercy that’s the reason you have eyes meanwhile all you offer me is a shoreline a rock soft sand to run…
by Rose Mary Boehm Plankter, a word that’s hardly ever used. You’ll never find just one. Plankter. Any organism living in the water column, says Wikipedia, and incapable of swimming against a current is a plankter. Plankton. Food supply for fish and whales. Even sharks like them as appetizers. In the Big-Bang scheme of things, a human must appear…
Pulkita Anand We stop deceiving through language With names and meanings With sounds and spellings With dangling sentences and silent letters With words piling on words With the mob of vandalised words growing With defunct adjectives and rudimentary words With clichéd idioms and repetitive slogans With many languages buried and…