The Tumulus
“where you are is not where skin transfers its open meadows/ where the insolent madwoman breaches the dykes…” Poem of the Week (December 17), by Colin Honnor.
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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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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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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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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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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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The ventriloquist at a birthday party
“…no trace of anxiety on her face, though she/ must know the odds against him, the small chance/ of acceptance, the endless cost of otherness…” Poem of the Week (November 5), by Aseem Kaul.
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Homecoming
“She hears the crowing of birds outside,/ her neighbour cussing at the colony chowkidar,/ the petroleum cough of the retired colonel’s jeep…” Poem of the Week (October 29), by Rakhshan Rizwan.
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Jaggery Roof
“It’s midnight in Delhi./ I am tongue kissing a bowl of Bengali pudding/…listening to the heartbeats of a million books.” Poem of the Week (October 22), by TJ Dema.
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Peshawar, 1976
“The sun was always moving/ from one sky to another.// Do you understand?” Poem of the Week (October 8), by Patricia Hale.
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