Poems by Arvilla Fee
The Past
“Fear not for the future,
weep not for the past.”
~Percy Bysshe Shelley
Is it water,
a slow wearing away
of a hardened stone?
Is it fire,
burning down the...
Three Poems : By Michael G. Smith
How To Approach a Tree
As if it were the sole
being in a sea of hot sand,
its furrowed bark an open
gate to the pure land
you...
Three Poems by Ragila Saji
Translated from Malayalam by Ra Sh
Two breasts that came out of the woods
Two breasts
come out of the woods
to enter your dream.
You are...
Poems by João Luís Barreto Guimarães
Translated from Portuguese by Calvin Olsen
Archaeology of a Gesture
The gesture lasted a split second (the
trace of a feeling) I venture out
to find it but...
Poems by Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal
Shadow to Shadow
Moving from shadow to shadow
with the warm wind at my back
I have no preference between
the two shadows. When the
sun breaks through I...
Poems by Ken Anderson
God
God yawns and rakes a hand through silver hair, pulls faces,
tweaks noses. God’s life is not as one supposes.
God is always neatly dressed,...
Tanka by Gabriel Rosenstock
Gabriel Rosenstock’s Tanka Series – 4
1.
the flower seller is left
with her flowers
I am left with my poems
...
Two Poems by Mary Shanley
Rilke
Rene continuously rearranged himself.
As he shed layers of historical definition
he eventually received glimpses of the beauty
of his inner world and his larger connection
to...
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...
Three Poems by Glen Armstrong
Last Night on Earth
The very act of waiting
makes the case
for continuation.
Ask the core
of some old tree how death
and wood collaborate.
On the Floor
Take me...
