Lately, I keep crossing
“I think about the woman with the palest skin/ sitting across the table from me. Think most/ of the cavernous spaces opaque by her eyes.”
Poem of the Week (December 21), by Lauren Camp.
Poetry
She Plays a Child’s Game
“The windows are red/ and ringing with silhouettes.”
Poem of the Week (December 14), by Mishka Hoosen.
White Flesh, Yellow Dust
“Now there is just stillness,/ a silence not quiet, but alive/ inside the muted grace of winter light.”
Poem of the Week (December 7), by Rachel Heimowitz.
Radcliffe Line
“The line/ reincarnating as a fragile ceasefire margin,/ that moves to and fro with glacier tilt”
Poem of the Week (November 30), by Usha Kishore.
Fi Yom Wi Leila
“Spare me this Arab love for dictators tonight./ Come closer, listen—Warda is singing…”
Poem of the Week (November 23), by Zeina Hashem Beck.
The Best Medicine
“Inside is a black verse. Black like the womb of a deep river/ too black for this porcelain room…”
Poem of the Week (November 2), by Juleus Ghunta.
Opera Kabul
“there are ten moons in this room,/ a thousand miles in this corridor/ but not a single whisper inside us…”
Poem of the Week (October 26), by Nathalie Handal.
While Watching the Latest Clip Out of Douma, Syria,
“God is great,// he begs aloud—again and again,/ as if repetition could make that be,// make that true…” Poem of the Week (October 19), by Tara Ballard.
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Half the Kingdom/Det halve rige
“I neither cut off a toe, nor shaved off a heel/ just minced my way through it all/ with a smile…” Poem of the Week (October 12), by Jesper Wung-Sung, translated from Danish by Lindy Falk van Rooyen.
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Parallel
“It’s raining again./ they don’t tell you about the/ rain/ before you come/ or the cold or the clouds…” Weekend poem, by Samuel Usayd Ilyas.
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