Lost in the Flow of Time
“Names and butterflies flutter around/ while the literati picnic on the grass.” Poem of the Week (September 3), by Anatoly Kudryavitsky
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Wind Shaping Thirst
“She knows how solitude vases the rose stems/ of unspoken needs.”
Weekend poem, by Charles F. Thielman.
Panorama from the Top of the Wicker Arches
“To the edge of the heart. To the periphery/ where ghost kids kick phantom football…” Poem of the Week (August 27), by Ãgnes Lehóczky
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The goldfish that swallowed my ashes
“The goldfish that/ swallowed my ashes/ now heads down the Tiber.”
Weekend poem, by Daniel Roy Connelly
Alexandria in World War II
“Since spring, Geneva has thrown open her home to soldiers.”
Poem of the Week (August 20), by Anis Shivani
A Year or Two in Rome, a Week or Two in Paris
“I did notice, though, that the best oranges/ came from the most withered tree”
Weekend poem, by Jeffrey D. Boldt
Green
Poem of the Week (August 13), by Kent Monroe
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Ausländerin
“Is it me? The eternal foreigner afraid/ of even the sidewalks of this new country, even the/ sunlight bites.”
By Rakhshan Rizwan
Alone As I Am / Jaise Main Tanha Hun
From our ninth issue, a beautiful poem by Azra Abbas translated from the Urdu by Muhammad Umar Memon
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Liaison
Poem of the Week (August 6), by Richard O’Connell
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