Vir Heroicus Sublimus (for Frank O’Hara)
“In July 1966,/ weeping and wailing was heard/ from Cherry Grove to Corneille Estates…” Weekend poem, by Jeremy Freedman.
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Mauve Place
“There’s a mauve place you’ve forgotten,/ where you mothered dogs for a living…” Poem of the Week (August 5), by Chloe Stopa-Hunt.
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Kashmir
“here/ death is frolicking in the snow// and only a quarter of the story is ever told/known…” Weekend poem, by Arindam Banerjee.
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Grandmother’s Vocabulary
“She wanted us to remain girls/ for as long as biology would allow.” Weekend poem, by Joey Chin.
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Little Mother
“Fleet-footed/ as a deer at seventy, Little Mother warms/ water for the family, cooks breakfast/ and dinner, tidies up the fallen decades.” Poem of the Week (July 8), by Usha Kishore.
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My grandfather
“…he never bothered/ learning another script,/ dependent still, at 73, on his grandchildren/ to read him ice-cream signs…” Weekend poem, by Akhil Katyal.
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Ekalavya
“Ekalavya, naïve disciple,/ Your guru preyed on your thumb/ With the eyes of a skillful vulture…” Poem of the Week (June 10), by Manash Bhattacharjee.
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Analogy
“My son,/ the world is not as warm and funny as your mother’s womb…” Poem of the Week (June 3), by Ikhda Ayuning Maharsi.
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Joe Swift knew nothing of musick
“I flicked a farthing// to the best busker in all the universe and wandered/ home with rushing-watermill ears..” Weekend poem, by Adam Heardman.
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Hilda Horsley’s Alarm Clock
“At eight o’clock in the morning a piece/ of shrapnel burrowed its tick into the small/ intestine, like clockwork…” Poem of the Week (May 6), by Emily Webb.
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