By Thomas Page This is a series of poems of words that do not directly translate into English. I have tried to capture the essence of the word in a poem. Have you ever tried to put out a fire at a banquet Only to have the reams of white set ablaze after she … Continue reading The Untranslatable: Verschlimmbessern
Poems by Oormila Vijayakrishnan Prahlad
Skittles with planets An amethyst, he said slamming down the prayer beads. talking above the nauseous fumes of camphor and incense he drew skewed circles intersecting subsets - seventeen of them jotting numbers on a paper that presumably charted the rebel trajectory of all the wayward moons and wastrel stars that had driven me to … Continue reading Poems by Oormila Vijayakrishnan Prahlad
Poems by Umar Yogiza Jr
the silent bird in us with broken wings this is the silent hum of a bird in us with broken wings remember all the sacrifice that has gone into this healing— elope if it's the only chance of your survival call out to ahmadu bello of more than fifty years ago if … Continue reading Poems by Umar Yogiza Jr
Poems by Pat St. Pierre
Memories of You Memories of you haunt me while sleeping. I ask myself why they disturb me so. I wake from memory like dreams and fear makes me tremble. I want to remember the good times but all that enters my mind is a fearful memory of you. The happy times existed but your rage … Continue reading Poems by Pat St. Pierre
Key Elegies
By LA Felleman Jumble drawer puzzle you turned and opened I wish I could recall what Were they important those objects you secured? Have I left them vulnerable or locked away never to be seen by me again? Forgive me key to something or other for my failing to recognize I make this promise … Continue reading Key Elegies
The Untranslatable: Poronkusema
By Thomas Page The Untranslatable This is a series of poems of words that do not directly translate into English. I have tried to capture the essence of the word in a poem. My father bought us one of those fitness-watches— The ones with the app— To ensure that we would be walking every … Continue reading The Untranslatable: Poronkusema
Weird of Dreams
By Pawel Markiewicz Weird of the dreams there are finitely October-ides meek shooting stars – the friends of nighttime have fallen afore the visit of the morning star – the boon Venus I was able to feel their eyesome miraculous silence a dreamier eviternity belongs to me I can think of its waking dreams about the … Continue reading Weird of Dreams
As The Chrysalis Cracks
By Kimber Annie The blue has begun shifting to a different hue, and all I know is to hang on for dear life cause it’s gonna pulled me though, and then along with it. Out of the chrysalis into a new universe literally breaking the boundaries of my mind. The glassy liquid crystals once used to cocoon and grow me… are now being … Continue reading As The Chrysalis Cracks
Poems by Stephen Kingsnorth
Meet up at the River With Chris, by reeds, before day heat, dawn song went down to the river. He, college man, middle ‘Yonges’, long gone, soul and body doctor, journal only google, atrial fibrillation access, leaving own sugar needle flask once on station platform, boarding panic. Assamese coffee shop, assumed hippy … Continue reading Poems by Stephen Kingsnorth
Low Key, Chilled Out
By Ian Copestick A foggy, freezing cold night At the start of the new year. After taking the dog out For her nightly exercise. We enter the nice, warm Heated house. Open a Couple of bottles of wine, Eat nice cheeses and Salamis with crackers. The popular, hyped days Of the season are gone. But, … Continue reading Low Key, Chilled Out
Academy of the Heart And Mind 