Poems by Duane Anderson
Train Crossing
Lit up across the Interstate,
the video board message stated
‘Look, listen, and live.
Watch out at railroad crossings.’
I thought it a strange bulletin,
for in all...
Tanka by Gabriel Rosenstock
Gabriel Rosenstock’s Tanka Series – 7
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they stand in judgement
'j'accuse!' they say with one voice
it penetrates me
'you...
Poems by Michael Gessner
Tower of Aspiration
Death may come this evening.
I’ve been climbing a hill,
the knees of my pants are torn
from crawling, and through
the years I’ve had...
Two Poems by Ralph Culver
The New Man
At night, preparing for sleep, he faces himself in the mirror, and the image before him becomes gradually more foreign, more remote,...
Poems by Devika Mathur
A Shadow
I am a woman of soft auburn dreams/ a soft noise that appears after a thunder/ you wish to dissolve my nectar into...
Poems by Danijela Trajković
Return
You arrived in the valley
at eight o'clock in the evening
and found me sitting next to the hearth
which I had been keeping alive...
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 John Grey
We Risk Takers
It's snowing in the city.
I dig your car out
so you can risk your life
on pot-holed black-ice roads.
You're on your way
to making sure
you...
Poems by Michael Angel Martin
Cholina
When my mother dies
I learn I never knew her.
But she told me two stories,
two girlhood miracles.
At ten she saves her family
from a crocodile stalking
in...
Malayalam Poetry : Sreekumar Kariyad’s Poems
Malayalam Poetry in Translation Series – 30
Translated by Aditya Shankar
More than any other genre in Malayalam literature, poetry has articulated the profound contradictions of...
