how to fill a memory box
“add measured doses of sex/ and cigarettes./ yes,/ measured….”
Weekend poem, by Shobhana Kumar.
Poetry
The Strength
“This was break time/ and Milan in 1990, West Germany/ and Holland…” Poem of the Week (April 7), by Owen Vince.
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in caravaggio’s ikon
“Thomas,/ Apostle to our secular, mocking, murderous/ new age…” Weekend poem for Easter Sunday, by John Robert Lee.
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On a December Noon
“I took out my pouch, and extracted the wooden pipe/ Swollen recently by the deceased’s lips…” Poem of the Week (March 31), by Arup K Chatterjee.
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The Einstein-machine
“But there at the edge of the embankment stood God’s/ blue Morris forgotten in the lyme grass…” Weekend Poem, by Niels Hav. Translated from Danish by P. K. Brask & Patrick Friesen
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Beauty of Lahore
“the sea of motor cars floods these city streets/ as though to stop for a second would halt its tides forever…” Poem of the Week (March 24), by Afshan Sajjad. Translated from Urdu by Jim Carruth.
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Hamsa
“…Like a prayer, I name/ all the things I did not ask for.” Weekend Poem, by Arlyn LaBelle.
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How to talk to a former warlord
“Now this one is difficult. Counter-intuitive./ Remember they are still human…” Poem of the Week (March 17), by Heather Bourbeau.
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On my seventieth birthday
“The old should be wise,/ But I’m bored with/ that disguise…” Weekend Poem, by George Freek.
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Four Songs
“…at daybreak at noon/ the sun’s feeble shafts/ step into the room…” Poem of the Week (March 10), by Martyn Crucefix.
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