Simple Complex Shapes
“Take her by the hand,/ by the hair,/…lead her/ to the sea/ …the pinhead/ where, if she’s to dance,/ she’ll enjoy horizons.” By Vahni Capildeo, part of our Caribbean writers feature.
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Outside the Courthouse
“…the colonel/ with his special bloody unit,/ …the preacher preaching of gifts/ waiting on the other side/ of these shadows.” By Kwame Dawes, part of our Caribbean writers feature.
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Canvas
“…in this tiny tumble-down dwelling,/ small village children stood, not on a bare/ dirt-floor, but tiptoe at the rim of the world.” By Esther Phillips, part of our Caribbean writers feature.
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Wait, Listen, If
“what place at the end of the world/ would have been vast and silent enough/ for me to take your hand…” By Ryan Van Winkle, from our eighth issue.
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The Bumblebee Dreams
“She does not dream of her death, nor play scholar/ to the deaths of her colleagues, whom she mourns/ with only the faintest fizzing.” By Jon Stone, from our eighth issue.
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Poem for Clothes Left in Another Country
“Sometimes you come back to me, invoked by accident/ …and I am/ seduced, unstitched with the thought of you.” By Sharanya Manivannan, from our seventh issue.
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Is There a Translator in the House?
“Sudan’s great poet, dead?/ …Why hadn’t we heard him?/ Why didn’t we crowd the streets,/ mourning like the people of his city?” Weekend poem, by Darrell Petska.
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João De Vivre
“João was of the rarified First World, but no stranger to its analog. To see it up close was invigorating—the knowledge that one would be soon returning to a more pleasant place made it so.” Story of the Week (June 6), by Jon Shifrin.
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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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The Law Concerning Mermaids
“…maybe this is the problem with empires: how they have forced us to live in a world lacking in mermaids…” Weekend poem, by Kei Miller.
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