Three Poems by Aleena
Malayalam Poetry in Translation
Translated by Ra Sh
Transplorers
Some sugar spilled
when making coffee.
Ants with sharp noses
surrounded it.
The adults and the youngsters
carried it as per one’s...
Cartography of a Time : 5 Poems – By Kalyani Bindu
Our mute dog thinner than a shadow
Our mute dog thinner than a shadow,
veils with defeated sadness
our last transactions in tenderness,
embarking like a...
Two Poems By Cameron Morse
Two Cashews
Impossible not to look
around and fall in love with,
this life extends daily
its bouquet of leafless branches.
On the last day in April,...
Tanka by Gabriel Rosenstock
Gabriel Rosenstock’s Tanka Series – 7
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1.
they stand in judgement
'j'accuse!' they say with one voice
it penetrates me
'you...
Five Poems by David Lohrey
A Good Paddling
Yes, it was better back then, far better to be alive.
They put the groceries on a conveyer belt at the A &...
Poems by Mariela Cordero
The first.
I am the first
I'm at the beginning
Of time
In the middle of the gloom
In the particle
Of this sunset
And to the edge
Of the collapse.
I am...
Poems by Vipitha
Translated from Malayalam by Ra Sh
* Kissing a dead man
Will the world consider
kissing a dead man as a
Kiss?
A Kiss
when someone is in
senseless sleep
with drooping...
Panopticon – Poems by Ashalatha
Translated from Malayalam by Ra Sh
A. In the time of Cholera
As God observed from the observation tower,
two kids, boy and girl, barely out of...
Poems by Michael T. Smith
Narrative
Behind some craggy hill,
hectoring me around,
I passed an Obshchina, in which
everyone was happy.
The sculptor
gave me a smile and sent me on,
but...
Poems by Christina Petrides
Drugstore Blues
My grandma noisily swigged dregs
of chocolate shake through a limp straw.
Flavored milk filmed her empty glass.
“I’m playing the drugstore blues,”
she declared...
