Bluestocking at twilight
“She’d watch her victims—only in a mirror—/ Their eyes held loose verbs from books she’d once read/ and read just once.” Weekend poem, by Mark J. Mitchell.
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Feynman’s Vaudevillian Dream of the Hardy-Ramanujan Number
“The starfish. I saw it on an English beach one frigid morning. Its five arms splitting me like five infinities…” Poem of the Week (August 11), by Arjun Rajendran.
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Maria
“I’ve more sins than they have saints/ She laughs, and prays her hand to her mouth…” Weekend Poem, by Phoebe Stuckes.
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Moving On
“I will not miss the bird-blue door they broke in the middle of the night// for a laugh. I will not walk in the park, feed the ducks with our babies./ Without you I bind myself more loosely…” Poem of the Week (August 4), by Zelda Chappel.
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My Parents as the House Fire
“…sitting on the couch eyes closed/ he doesn’t answer as wallpaper pulls itself free/ curls into the face of the fire…” Weekend Poem, by Chelsey Harris.
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Berlin
“It is a long way. The way has been long./ You stumble at the gates/ whose flags and guards breathe out the West…” Poem of the Week (July 28), by Clarissa Aykroyd.
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Stockholm
“I think, then, about the kidnapped girl,/ leaving the basement for the ï¬rst time in her life,/ if she still loved him…” Weekend poem, by Sarah Fletcher.
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Because They are Always Fighting
“I swallow watermelon, tomato, and apple seeds whole,/ plant myself in my mother’s overgrown garden…” Poem of the Week (July 21), by Chelsey Harris.
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Amnesty
“…She wiped/ down her cheeks to tell us// Srebrenica is in the new Serbia…” Weekend Poem, by Stuart Pickford.
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This Room Speaks
“This room still chirps like the birds / Who gave my Nano her first funeral…” Poem of the Week (July 14), by Syed Jarri Haider.
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