flood and shatter
“When the hurricane hit, the water rushed backwards./ Black water bubbling up and out from the drain/ with a pungent stink…” Poem of the Week (May 13), by Loretta Oleck.
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Tarazoo
“I see cracked brown hands/ pick a pair of amrood/ on two stems kissing like cherries.”
Weekend poem (May 11), by Yusra Amjad.
Hilda Horsley’s Alarm Clock
“At eight o’clock in the morning a piece/ of shrapnel burrowed its tick into the small/ intestine, like clockwork…” Poem of the Week (May 6), by Emily Webb.
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For La Llorona
“come when the rains/ will not stain your/ lily-white shroud// where the sun/ will not freeze/ your blood…” Weekend poem, by David Ishaya Osu.
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Raptures
“‘Conies’, whispers Wisdom Smith, ‘require calm,/ dawn craft and a down-wind’…” Poem of the Week, from the Wenlock Festival. By David Morley.
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Thunder, Lightning etc.
“Our lightning strikes would laser half the town…/ A childhood, if you’re lucky, should be this.” Weekend poem from the Wenlock Festival, by Luke Wright.
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TÄrÄ at the Prom
“There were only skeletons at the prom but/ TÄrÄ was not afraid…” Poem of the Week (April 22), by Ottilie Mulzet.
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An Old Soul Angles Inside Itself
“Waits for a tug at the bait:/ a book with blank pages strung/ from the hook of a question mark.” Weekend poem, by Cortney Lamar Charleston.
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Night Life
“Each day is not like this: Her edges showed sharp/ as diamonds one Tuesday before Wednesday dark/ pulled her from rain and dropped her in a car.” Poem of the Week (April 15), by Mark J. Mitchell.
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‘As though we lived falling out of the skin into the soul’
“Then there were stars and he tried to breathe in the pulse of their light./ The flickering of stars is like the heartbeat before death.” Weekend poem, by Clarissa Aykroyd.
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