Francesca Bell – Two Poems
Lessons My daughter dreads middle school science because all they study is cataclysm, end-stopped species after end-stopped species, earth’s slow dwindling. There is no longer a world to study that teems with life, not a globe ecstatic in its wild spinning. Day after day, they regard the crumbling edge, broken asphalt where a road runs […]
Mary Buchinger – r ɛ z əˈ r ɛ k ʃ ə n / as in “resurrection of clouds”
rɛz əˈrɛk ʃən /as in “resurrection of clouds” Mary Buchinger, author of e i n f ü h l u n g/in feeling (2018), Aerialist (2015), and Roomful of Sparrows (2008), is president of the New England Poetry Club and professor of English and communication studies at MCPHS University in Boston; her work […]
Iain Twiddy – Bird Notes
Bird Notes Everyone knows even the sad notes float. So a dead bird always seems slightly absurd, like a hardwired melody firing the wrong words, a speck in the eye pulling a second or two to come to a question, as when a bubble bursts into a teardrop: where does it come from, this sentiment […]
Mai Der Vang – Proximal
Proximal It’s all day waking, every step as a tick of the clock until your body falls back. How long until you approach the meaning of lone. Have your ears ever computed the miles between dream and dreaming, between closer and closed. You and I are fiercely mundane in our desire to arrive. Are we […]
