Poetry

    Chemistry After a long day at school, my mother smells of chemistry labs – rotten eggs, lemons and vinegar, of wonders born from test tubes. At home, noble gases,...

    Zero PointI was not having an experience of any kind. (Adi Da Samraj) Nothing has happened. Does that help? (Rainer Maria Rilke)If you want to...

 charts and voyages between thoughts you might come across a dedication the type you see inside a museum or library and wonder whether you should continue on or...

 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...