A New Lesson
“Do not wait to polish the rings of night/ Do not wait for morning to declare its disapproval of the banality of desire…” Weekend poem, by Annie Lewis.
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Comedy Is Not Pretty
“‘Comedy is not pretty’ were Timothy Bunch’s last words/ –spoken from the electric chair…” Poem of the Week (December 10), by Kent Monroe.
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Of God-Trees
“Every time I shave, just above the legs,/ and reach the protruding bones/…. I, again/ hear the whistling of the wrecked train.” Weekend poem, by Mahtem Shiferraw.
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New Orleans, 2005
“When my sister and I were eggs/ and my mother walked to the store/ it rained milk.” Poem of the Week (December 3), by Jeff P. Jones
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From ‘I CIVIL’
“When we lie in bed long enough,/ the boundaries of our bodies dissolve.” Weekend poem, by Amalie Smith. Translated from Danish by Paul Russell Garrett.
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Swiss Lace Blouse
“I will take a bath before noon./ The street will rapid blink/ at my doughy belly…” Poem of the Week (November 26), by Annie Zaidi.
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Nine and a half weeks
“He didn’t even get it; I was leaving him,/ and not just jumping on the tram…” Weekend poem, by Margarita Petkova. Translated from Bulgarian by Christopher Buxton.
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Gun Club
“…a pause,/ a holding of breath. And the trigger squeeze/ like coaxing a moth on a silk thread.” Poem of the Week (November 19), by Amy MacLennan.
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Admonished
“Those who wait for the messiah, or write/ about God as though he exists are cooked.” Weekend poem, by Thomas Piekarski.
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After Gary Butte
“…souls many, so many, Ramona/ lovers scarved with rainbows/ scattering galaxies out of sad earth.” Poem of the Week (November 12), by John Robert Lee.
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