a dua for the masses
“This is… for you who cut yourselves open to feel something already lost, /for you who skip prayers to smoke…”
Poem of the Week (September 28)
poetry
god the plural
“narcissus, look in the water./ the man in the sky is soaking.”
Weekend poem, by Rebecca Took.
“I came to go back the favour”
“Not knowing they were medically induced/ he married her for steady eyes,/ lingering vowels, for,/ in the library, her drawing of vinegary pens/ over print….” Poem of the Week (September 21), by Hannah January.
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Butterfly Effect
“Wake me up/ when it’s over, the idea that/ we are separate from the world/ in which the soul comes undone.”
Weekend poem, by Virginia Konchan.
As heavy as the bottom of the sea
“They woke to find an angel on the beach/ as heavy as the bottom of the sea,/ as dark as boulders locked in frozen lakes…”
Weekend poem, by Adham Smart.
Letter (after Dionne Brand)
“exhausting, these post-modern certainties/ no truth, no meaning, no author/ no beauty I suppose in the old songs of remembering…”
Poem of the Week (September 7), by John Robert Lee.
Hideout
“There is no space small enough/ To contain her in this glass house.”
Weekend poem, by Saleem Peeradina.
Rosie
“This blonde and grey-eyed woman,/ her fingers combing a prisoner’s hair/ in a barn, a field, a hidden somewhere/ in that wartime summer.” Poem of the Week (August 31), by Harold Hoefle.
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The Secret Library
“Just like the body needs food, the soul needs books.” Weekend poem, by Tabitha Hayward.
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Keeping a date/Acudiendo a la cita
“The fugitive’s road is always long./ Every place is always too/ close to be the end.” Poem of the Week (August 17), by Felipe BenÃtez Reyes. Translated from Spanish by Anna Rosenwong.
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