Sketches and Canticles of Lent (after Shallon Fadlien)
“We know the triumphant end of that old scenario:/ disembowelled shroud, vacant catacomb…” Three poems to mark Easter Sunday, by John Robert Lee.
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Millipede
“now I want to return,/ return to that alerted night,/ when you walked on my face/ with a thousand legs like a millipede,/ as if you owned the place…” Weekend poem, by Jeremy Freedman.
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Flower Gardens
“Lately, I am told, in my native land, mothers stay up long into the night staring at all of the dark…” Weekend poem, by Zainab Syed.
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Global Warming
“Perhaps desire moves in atoms,/ embedding itself in other hearts…” Weekend poem, by Jane Frank.
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Fairy tale
“After all, who tells lambs/ they are raised for slaughter?” Weekend poem, by Shobhana Kumar.
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Simen ♥ Agate
“…tightly clicked/ in a land of wide places –/ come around, come here.” Weekend Poem, by Phoebe Power.
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Ghosts of the Fechin House
“Here,/ after a day of laying slick oil// over the red cheeks of his model,/ Fechin called the flower out of wood…” Weekend poem, by E.E. Lampman
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Nocturne
“The rest of it I wash away, sediment,/ sent for some other centuries./ Your words I keep for the later flowering…” Weekend Poem, by Pratyusha Prakash.
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Crescent Veils
“Why not take a hot iron/ to my forehead and make it/ permanent…” Weekend Poem, by Erum Khan.
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Mary’s Reading
“…I waylaid her one frozen/ morning on her way to Bacon Hall/ French class & we had a brief scene…” Weekend Poem, by Peter Grieco.
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