Ghalib
“I alone survived/ to take down their corpses hanging/ from the trees, the lamp-posts…” Poem of the Week (February 11), by Abhay Kumar.
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Desert Ecology Lesson 3: Landforms – Wadis and Runnels
“Dryness. Wadis and runnels stark./ Beside them, one desert lark linking/ sky and earth, quenching its thirst/ at the thorny salt wort…” Weekend poem, by Diana Woodcock.
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A Good Map
“The mapmaker translates paved trails/ into prophecy, a warning in red…” Poem of the Week (February 4), by Elosham Vog.
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Business Music
“…staring at the pine outside/ where days begin to rain/ our hearts will count their money.” Weekend poem, by Sam Silva.
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Driftless Area (Or: At Perrot State Park at Forty-Six)
“…half my life is nothing up here,/ where ten thousand years/ disappear like campfire smoke.” Poem of the Week (January 28), by Jeffrey D. Boldt.
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Approaching Winter
“Perhaps we knew we were headed for/ Winter, perhaps we knew this was our last summer./ For why else would we/ Insist on taking the boat out to the sea.” Weekend poem, by Pooja Garg Singh.
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Rectangle Print
“Rothko knew his paintings were brash/ the kind of fare that would usurp/ viewer confidence…” Poem of the Week (January 21) by Matthew Schmidt.
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Wrecker’s Ball
“The sea heaves in,/ out of breath, searches/ deep pockets for shells.” Weekend poem, by Nancy Anne Miller.
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On the acquisition of language
“For we are children of/ legacies that took our tongues…” Poem of the Week (January 14), by Sanaa Jatoi.
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At Capernaum, boats
“This is the Port of the boat people/ After Dessalines and Duvalier, HIV and cholera/ After tornado and tremblor…” Weekend poem, to mark the anniversary of the Haitian earthquake, by John Robert Lee.
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