Shama and Shahzad
“We stand unimpressed against the wall,/ waiting, to be shot by your religion. The bullets/ pierce nothing but skin….” Weekend Poem, by Maham Khan.
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The Assembly of the Head
“Friendship of four and flour, a pair and a pregnant mouse,// five swine must breed to double their number….” Poem of the Week (June 8), by Julia Rose Lewis.
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Skeletons with Music
“Then you married the bloke from Brown, severed ties, didn’t invite me to your wedding—afraid I’d stick my hand up your bodice…” Weekend Poem, by Eleanor Levine.
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Do you believe in doctors?
“…Now they peer into the darkness/ and sort out right from that which wronged you./ They find an offender…” Poem of the Week (June 1), by Adham Smart.
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Simen ♥ Agate
“…tightly clicked/ in a land of wide places –/ come around, come here.” Weekend Poem, by Phoebe Power.
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Ghosts of the Fechin House
“Here,/ after a day of laying slick oil// over the red cheeks of his model,/ Fechin called the flower out of wood…” Weekend poem, by E.E. Lampman
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Nocturne
“The rest of it I wash away, sediment,/ sent for some other centuries./ Your words I keep for the later flowering…” Weekend Poem, by Pratyusha Prakash.
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The Helga Pictures
“He touched a knee or an elbow// with the tip of his paintbrush when he wanted/ me to turn this direction or that…” Poem of the Week (December 16), by Terri Kirby Erickson.
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Vapor Trail
“…the oxygen in the air is leaking away;/ a jet plane/ scrambles…” Poem of the Week (December 9), by Oh Sae-young. Translated from Korean by Brother Anthony of Taizé.
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Crescent Veils
“Why not take a hot iron/ to my forehead and make it/ permanent…” Weekend Poem, by Erum Khan.
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