When Dolls Were Made of Paper and Sugar Water Was a Tonic
“On the bottom shelves of closets,/ the paper-dolls lay in cots,/ penciled-in eyes trained on doors/ that let in rabid dogs…”
Poem of the Week (31 July), by Saba Husain.
Poetry
Stakhanov
“The coal in his eyes, in his ears, on his lips, in tears/ that cleansed his corneas, in fingernails. The coal…”
Poem of the Week (9 July), by Somendra Singh Kharola.
Some Boats Don’t Float They Resist Sinking
“I admit I felt nothing when the news broke,/ it was only the stained glass bellies of the purple martins/ flaring, that made my skin bristle into the laketop stillness…”
Poem of the Week (1 July), by M.J. Arlett.
Of Persimmons
“My beloved brought me a basket of Hachiya persimmons, orange-red and glowing…”
Poem of the Week (24 May), by Susan Nguyen.
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“It was a needless rinse, this bowl/ half wood, half smelling from wood/ that’s been taken away, trembling”
Poem of the Week (17 May), by Simon Perchik
The Word
“they cannot ensure a clean death for me/ they cannot ensure my reincarnation back to those lands…”
Poem of the Week (3 May), by Elif Sezen.
Vigil
“For the longest time I thought the night was furred, / a mass of soft hair fallen each dusk.”
Poem of the Week (April 26), by Meg Reynolds.
Note from Orchestra
“I passed a boy with a cloud of smoke/ where his head ought to be:/ a cigarette fume Magritte…”
Poem of the Week (19 April), by Helen Bowell.
Invitation to Dust
“We were tangueros/ of the same tile, tropical/ byway, creek mist,/ and love’s insomnia under Venus…”
Poem of the Week (12 April), by Sergio A. Ortiz.
It is easier
“Three paper rosebuds/ strung on an unbreakable thread…”
Poem of the Week (5 April) by Alice Rahon, translated by Anna Kisby.