Tanka by Gabriel Rosenstock
Gabriel Rosenstock’s Tanka Series – 8
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1.
if the bird is there
that is all i need to know
let it sing or not
beloved, if You...
Five Poems by Simon Perchik
1.
Before this field blossomed
it was already scented
from fingers side by side
darkening the lines in your palm
the way glowing coals
once filled it with breasts
and everything...
Three Poems by John Grey
Emma's Interrupted Walk
Emma was out walking the dog when she saw them,
a girl and boy, surely still in their teens,
down behind the bushes by...
Public Body – By Mariela Cordero
Translation by Aaron Devine
I don’t inhabit a country; I inhabit a body
—broken—
meekly unfurling
over voracious ruins
and breathing the smoke of burnt days.
I don’t inhabit a...
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...
Poems by Dimitris P. Kraniotis
The Red Poem
I painted red
The sky
Days that I lost myself
And denied myself
Laughing without reason
I lived those
I painted red
The water
I drowned in tears
And saved me
Forgetting...
Poems by Jaya Abraham
A room of my own
Once, I had a room
With glass walls.
Sitting there
I painted my life
Dreaming
About oceans.
For those who saw me
I was a fish...
Poems by Christina Petrides
Drugstore Blues
My grandma noisily swigged dregs
of chocolate shake through a limp straw.
Flavored milk filmed her empty glass.
“I’m playing the drugstore blues,”
she declared...
Five Poems By Cameron Morse
Focal Seizures
These small smells
that last a few
seconds
little signals
signposts
whiffs of
the trail he’s
picking up on
the narrative
thread lost
trailhead
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A warrior forages
wild mushrooms
Peels,...
Ukraine : The Silence of the Bees
By Gabriel Rosenstock
This is a bilingual tanka (5-7-5-7-7 syllables) in Irish and English in response to a painting by Ukrainian-Polish artist Jan Stanisławski (1860...
