Inspection
“I did not have much to do/ with god// So I believed my friends, and biked through traffic jams and rain,/ to find a Shiv Mandir, near Rangirkhari market…”
Poem of the Week (June 22), by Goirick Brahmachari.
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jazz
“…inside a wardrobe/ a wardrobe sings/ around a barman…” Weekend Poem, by Wale Owoade.
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MedellÃn
“I said no, not this moment,/ but still I glided through music, puzzle pieces,/ fitting rooms…” Poem of the Week (June 15), by Mehrnoosh Torbatnejad.
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Shama and Shahzad
“We stand unimpressed against the wall,/ waiting, to be shot by your religion. The bullets/ pierce nothing but skin….” Weekend Poem, by Maham Khan.
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The Assembly of the Head
“Friendship of four and flour, a pair and a pregnant mouse,// five swine must breed to double their number….” Poem of the Week (June 8), by Julia Rose Lewis.
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Skeletons with Music
“Then you married the bloke from Brown, severed ties, didn’t invite me to your wedding—afraid I’d stick my hand up your bodice…” Weekend Poem, by Eleanor Levine.
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Do you believe in doctors?
“…Now they peer into the darkness/ and sort out right from that which wronged you./ They find an offender…” Poem of the Week (June 1), by Adham Smart.
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Open-Plan
“not one person in the office knows/ that Henderson keeps a panther in his spare room at home…” By Neil Elder
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Life Just Swallows You Up
“Father dies during the appetizers. Mother/ keeps on eating. How’s work? she says. I/ pour more wine…” By Tania Hershman.
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I am Where
“I am on the roof when the bridge falls into the river – the concrete buckles in stages/ bits of road slip towards the two-mile wide water, as men and women in suits/ screech and jump from their cars, running uphill to the river bank;/ an exercise they had been training for on the treadmills at Goodlife…” By Julie Morrissy.
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