Night Wallah
“My lover turns and resumes oblivion/ under a diamond mesh of sweat./ I sit up and drink in the darkness…” Weekend Poem, by Josep Chanza.
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General Elections. India. 2014
“…if I could say it like that, I’d have traded/ places, offered you your own womb…” Weekend Poem, by Poorna Swami.
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Flow
“I will guide you through the darkness, the shadows of your hands on my skin,/ and out into the light that you deserve…” Weekend Poem, by Unsia Hussain.
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Pay Colonus
“Slow in learning how to make bombs, front restaurants or forge dollars,/ I studied Liberation Theology/ in cloud monasteries, near the wells and goatherd-routes…” Weekend poem, by Arturo Desimone.
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Prayer For Quick Dismemberment
“Smash open all the foretellings, retellings/ and untellings that this city can boast.// Smash open its red cement floors, rain-glittering/ cobblestones…” Weekend Poem, by Nandini Dhar.
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for zainab
“today marks an entire year of living with this half-finished poem…” Weekend Poem, by Hira A.
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Solving the Banking Crisis
“…Flipper’s flippering his tail so he’s walking/ on water and clicking his teeth in a grin/ at the handsomely arrived Police Patrol boat…” Weekend Poem, by Stuart Pickford.
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Deeply
“In the middle of the night I woke/ To no more voices no more laughter/ Only sky lanterns…” Weekend poem, by Manuel Bandeira. Translated from Portuguese by the 2015 City University Literary Translation Summer School.
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Lover’s Discourse – an exhibition in five rooms
“…a collection of things etc that could but won’t express themselves, including: a tiny tin bell without a clapper; a sickly animal that pretends to be healthy…” Weekend Poem, by Neele Dellschaft.
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Raiding Party
“…I miss the old days,/ Now it’s all crowds at airports, refugee camps;// The world decamped,/ With nowhere to go.” Weekend Poem, by Jeremy Wikeley.
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