Five Poems by Rony Nair
An Actress dies At a Wedding
One by one they pass away
leaving you and me, apart in tether.
measuring gauges of feeling once imbued.
weighed holdalls....
Poems by Robert Beveridge
Climb
Tired biceps flex, fingers
struggle. Hours
of darkness, of rope.
Still no light above.
There is a deep attraction
in relaxation, the power
of...
Switchblades on the Table – Poems by: María Ramírez Delgado
Translated from Spanish by : Billy B. Thompson
1. Switchblades on the Table
Let’s put two switchblades on the table.
Look at them and don’t let their...
Poems by Karla Linn Merrifield
Gizmo Girl’s Touristy Snapshot
Two senoras, thirty-somethings,
sisters or girlfriends on Sunday’s day off,
working girls, maybe office staff, off-duty
hip to hip on a white tile banc
beneath...
Poems by Holly Day
Once again, winter is here and I don’t know where the time went. The morning glory vines spread over the trellis out back are...
The Stories We Tell Ourselves: A Look Through the Lenses of Zen Buddhism and...
In his poem Can Palat W.S. Merwin reminisces about an abandoned, hillside farmstead he encountered as a young man. On a terrace he finds
an...
Five Poems: By Miriam Sagan
1. Advent
let’s ask ourselves
what is possible—
orange berries
clinging to the thorns
the moon wanes
but like love
replenishes
if only a sliver remains
cattle in the dark field
angels on the...
Two Poems by Michael G. Smith
A Bodhisattva-in-Training Contemplates Self-Denial
i.
Only years later
did Ching An realize
burning off two fingers
would not lead
to enlightenment.
But two millenia before,
having left his father’s palace,
the Buddha figured...
A Poem by Goirick Brahmachari
Chores / What is a perfect line?
It’s not about the pace
Not about this race, or how one must slowly learn to earn some disgrace;
Why...
Catullus in London – A Poem by Rehan Qayoom
Introductory Note by the author :
Catullus succeeded in his aim to make it ever impossible to pinpoint the identity of his beloved and yet...
