Poems by Ana Nikvul
Translated by Danijela Trajković
Apricot
When you come back from lunch
honey
come to see
apricot has blossomed
my father planted it when I was a kid
thunder halved it once
but...
Poems by Yuan Changming
Accident
Fiction hit
The fact hard, and ran
With truth per se
Being the only witness
Listening to the Wind
You left there...
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...
Desperate Seeker – Poems by Gary Beck
Oops
Before the internet
idiots were shunned
as soon as they brayed.
Now the world wide web
lets world wide dolts
babble endlessly,
bully viciously,
clog the electronic flow
with meaningless drivel,
hiding behind...
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...
Three Poems by Megha Sood
Out of Sync
How the body moves
shatters,
into zillion specks of glass
powered and brushed
to its core
but still every speck of it
can pinch and draw blood
can...
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...
The Song of the Melancholic – By Rimli Bhattacharya
The Song of the Melancholic
She sat,
She wrote,
The song of the melancholic.
She knew –
No one will read her,
The world is buoyant today.
But she –
She...
Three Poems from Jacobo the Turko : A Novel in Verse by Phillip...
Introductory Note:
Following are the three inaugural poems from Jacobo the Turko: A Novel in Verse, which recounts the misadventures of Jacobo Bitar, an Ecuadorian of indigenous...
Two Poems by Suchoon Mo
Two Shadows
two shadows
side by side
shoulder to shoulder
on the lonely road
to the gallows
I wonder
which one is mine
Sarah Jane
she had no face
she had no voice
I knew...
