* The Real Real Whoever sees the real charges the eye with a flare. Keeps evening kneeling, ablue-smoked air stripped of its string of lights given as the park to the people and where they move there, from path topath,…
Category: Poetry
Poetry: Julie Doxsee
* GIANT ATTRACTION WITH CREATURES Everyone’s toothis a little machine that can’t starfish itselfto the lip it loves. The way you speakhits the ceiling & stays there laryngitic, a blue noisephotoshopped clean I can’t stand so vertical. What broughtthis image…
Poetry: Reginald Shepherd
* Somewhere Off the Coast of Cyprus Gods don’t get what they want, they stumble,falter and halt at the frontiers of fulfillment, puzzledthat power isn’t always pleasure. They wantto know what know is (I have known, I knew, I know,…
Poetry: Edward Smallfield
* autumn in New York A blur at this tempo a memo often mingled ignores with pain the store- fronts lit with & rowing against the river the going & coming a blur: finger- prints on the keys on the…
Poetry: Liz Waldner
* Lacustrine and Midrash This is what kind of sweet life I have had: Someone wrote to me: what a shame it is your love of life should be pulled into its best channels by a lady radio and I…
Poetry: Brenda Iijima
* SHORN OF ITS HABITAT as if a final descent HABITUATION RABBIT the primeval swamp the common herd the crowded giant suns HOVERS THE NORM the many questions posed the many species written off the most helpful people in…
Poetry: Nick Moudry
* Still-life I think love is not this flower.You sing at night through our teeth.Our mouths do not move. If I wanta pumpkin, I will have a pumpkin. It is raining. You are not wetbecause you are inside. Looking upyou…
Poetry: Gillian Conoley
* Welcome to Omnidawn Blog’s first Poetry Feature! Rather than be a forum for only Omnidawn authors, we see this as an opportunity to highlight the work of other writers we admire too.This week you will find work featured by…