trickery
“i’ve taken to unpicking mirrors…/ i’ve stuffed your tourist dolls/ into the magician’s hat.” Poem of the Week (January 7), by Iain Britton.
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Slumber-Party Games
“That is the effect I have on all of them./ They lose control around me./ They all must be in love with me.” Weekend poem, by Megan Dobkin.
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Summer 1
“And boys make wheelies on winding country streets/ And girls with plastic buckets search mango groves/ For Kidneys…” Weekend poem, by Joanne C. Hillhouse
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Eleven
“I mourn my Uncle Ali’s beautiful son/ I mourn those somber sparrows soaked to the skin/ I mourn the dark corridors of Evin…” Poem of the Week (December 24), by Payam Feili.
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If I Were Able To Count Up To Five…
“Fair girls from alien Gorny Mari land/ Would ride bicycles to my town/ Their white teeth dazzling me…” Weekend poem, by Valery Petrovskiy.
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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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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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