Poetry

 Eyesore Peering at my body in the looking glass, I judge my wide forehead and bulbous nose, my buck teeth and rosacea skin, graying hair and sagging bosom, cellulite,...

    The Mulch When we think of chimaera, Of the impossibility of stasis, And the consistency of change, Of the annihilation of the zero point, Perfection,...

    I Love the Night-TimeI love the night-time, the stillness, the quietness, the painted silence, punctuated, by vital sounds, of clocks, of heating systems, of barking...

  Translated from Montenegrin by Dr. Ana Stjelja  The poetry by Montenegrin poet Katarina Sarić is a voice of a brave woman, the one who doesn’t leave...

    I know how to strangle my emotions I know how to strangle my emotions And to bury them underneath the realm I wrap the corpse and cleared...

    These poems are from the forthcoming book Cheapside Afterlife (April 2021, Longleaf Press at Methodist University). The book reimagines in 57 sonnets the life...

  Translated from Malayalam by Ra ShMermaid Once, in a dream, I had to traverse on foot a sea seething with fish. Though I walked far, though it was a dream, I...

  Translated from Malayalam by Ra ShMan and bananaA man and a banana tree are not similar. Though at first glance their posture is the same, the man and...

    One Has Only to live long enough and opa! anything will happen.                          ...

 Translated from Tamil by Nakul Vāc  Prophet for Twisted TimesAfraid I had put the wrong foot forward I went back a square. "Retreating not allowed for a...