Parallel
“It’s raining again./ they don’t tell you about the/ rain/ before you come/ or the cold or the clouds…” Weekend poem, by Samuel Usayd Ilyas.
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god the plural
“narcissus, look in the water./ the man in the sky is soaking.”
Weekend poem, by Rebecca Took.
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.
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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The Record Keeper
“there is only absence falling into absence/ and there’s also a high window/ and there is always evening prayer…” Weekend poem, by Nathalie Handal.
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Green Love & Positive Blood
“your roots are still penetrating the earth./You grab my hand knowing blood/stole our spring…” Weekend poem, by Charles McGregor.
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The past makes its way through
“You think you know where you’re going/until a voice rises through the air/on a midsummer’s night…”
Weekend poem, by Ayesha Chatterjee.