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Category: Poetry
Poetry: Aaron McCollough
from To Have Fallen To calm these visits one grants the mirror a blemish Concerning other worlds, there is at least a terrible one Do we swim in the font or drown here? The older sister sensed about me my…
Poetry: Lisa Wells
King Adam The summer you wooed me I read your journal while you slept, lyrics for the Gretsch you down-stroked until your wrist bled. My hands shook turning the pages, searching for sign. Some clue about what I was. She’s…
Poetry: 2012 Poetry Chapbook Contest Finalists
This week we feature new work from the five finalists for the 2012 Omnidawn Poetry Chapbook Contest: John Cross — The Terms of Your Tenancy Are Changed C. Violet Eaton — Some Habits HL Hazuka — True to Life: cuttings,…
Poetry: John Gallaher
The Glass Bridge Theory Which is door, which is wall, as we say we want living to be absolute. Which is fog in December and which is the same set of experiences at the same time? The girl eats her…
Poetry: Steve Roberts
MANDALA
Poetry: Tsering Wangmo Dhompa
First attempt at a five-year plan For Mika Memory digests without codes, where thickness of meaning is a proximity to time. I’ll start with the sky, the color of teal, or the shade of coffee in tea, to root desire…
Poetry: Martín Adán (translated by Katherine Silver and Rick London)
Sea and Shell A woman and a ball: out of a sudden agreement the world forms, in its inane rotation. It begins with the fish, which inhabits the wasteland. A curve sighs. Nothing swells immediately. A mathematical point: the sphere,…
Poetry: Avery E. D. Burns
from August new to the city he rode BART in all directions ending in each cardinal point an X whose hidden treasure lies in equivalencies time & distance “I’ll never do that again”
Poetry: Pattie McCarthy
from Marybones