Last Call
“I glimpsed inside Bacon’s studio/ at scattered imagery and piled texts: The Book of Monkeys and Diseases/ of the Human Mouth…” Weekend Poem, by Peter Marcus
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Certainties
“…how electrifying it was/ holding a hand, what quiet/ fingertips felt like on my / cheek…” Poem of the Week (March 3), by Jess Hackett.
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Icarus
“Theorem:/ we will liken our souls/ to a pair of winged horses.” Weekend poem, by Imogen Cassels.
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Night Errant
“So when the wolf/ rips the night open…/you deny, you deny,/you deny.” Poem of the Week (February 24), by Esther Phillips.
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Poem
“I stopped and worshipped a reproduction of the Grand Canyon/ I witnessed El Greco’s Agony in the Garden (1590) through the cool glass of a car windscreen…” Weekend poem, by Rowland Bagnall.
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Double Inundations
“The happy hours pass quickly by, the bitter/ ones pass slowly. Still, they are the same.” Poem of the Week (February 17), by Gábor Schein. Translated from Hungarian by Ottilie Mulzet.
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Book Buying
“I walk around, circling the demi-gods / From previous lives, when syllables would sing / The passions of my youth…” Weekend poem, by Michael C. Blumenthal.
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Pocketwatch
“A voice asks me for a light/ The face of a woman, it wants to talk/ To me, they like wretched nocturnal faces…” Poem of the Week (February 10), by Arup K Chatterjee.
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God in Translation
“…neither time nor God belongs to anyone./ The birds know this as they peck ruby seeds/ from fenced-in pomegranate trees…” Weekend Poem, by Jacqueline Balderrama.
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Fireflies
“soon it will be dark and hard to find/ the faintest light…/ But the farthest point/ of this barren land seems to sparkle.”
Poem of the Week (February 3), by Afshan Sajjad. Translated from Urdu by Kathrine Sowerby.