Clock-Watching
“It’s Friday, and I want to hold/ the day down by its neck to keep it still…” Weekend poem, by Sarah Fletcher.
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The making of newcomers
“Did woodpeckers,/ you wonder in your story,/ invent morse code? ” Poem of the Week (August 26), by Hubert Moore.
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Mary’s Bar
“The thirsty/ will pay her ten bucks for a Smirnoff,//five for a lukewarm Corona. The faint/ stagger out to the sunlight…” Weekend poem, by Laurie Barton.
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Our Lives, Seasoned with Poetry & Fairy Tales
How is it that we cling to concepts like hope and love, yet ignore their purveyors? Returning contributor Madhurima Duttagupta muses about the essence of human nature.
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Happiness
“I truly/ Like this age of ergonomic skies, skies extending/ over pleasant mountain ranges + ordered lakes…” Poem of the Week (August 19), by Dominic Hale.
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The Old Have Many Fears (after Su Tung Po)
“I hear a clock ticking/ like a toothache…” Weekend poem, by George Freek.
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The Grave Rose
“If you have only a single rose to offer me/ Do not offer it/ As a tombstone of the future…” Poem of the Week (August 12), by Manash Bhattacharjee.
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Vir Heroicus Sublimus (for Frank O’Hara)
“In July 1966,/ weeping and wailing was heard/ from Cherry Grove to Corneille Estates…” Weekend poem, by Jeremy Freedman.
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Mauve Place
“There’s a mauve place you’ve forgotten,/ where you mothered dogs for a living…” Poem of the Week (August 5), by Chloe Stopa-Hunt.
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Kashmir
“here/ death is frolicking in the snow// and only a quarter of the story is ever told/known…” Weekend poem, by Arindam Banerjee.
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