Florence Weinberger – Inspiration
Inspiration Magnetism, she claims is the source of her inspiration. Our earth’s a gravid rock that begs to be pierced. Perceived. Confessed back to itself. She gives it her mothered tongue dips its grudges, stropped cleavers, embers of dark inheritance into a potion made of potent odes and madrigals. Ejecting its dead clichés its random […]
J.I. Kleinberg – Wing
Wing When I raise my wing it has no shadow. When I turn my head no wing is there. Night pond, silent, holds the face of the moon. I dream of oceans. Waiting is my first language. Have bees roused from their torpor? Is the egg cracked? In the storm, when earth seems to verge […]
Shao Wei – Let Me Praise My Shoes!
Let Me Praise My Shoes! —A Personal Displacement in Six Parts in the 20th Century * 1905 Grandfather Shao Kang Ning 邵康宁 was born in the small village Gao Liang Pu His name had his parents’ wishes: Kang is Health Ning is Peace His century had neither Grandfather was born in the rice field While […]
Arthur Vogelsang – Envoy
Envoy Raised a level far beyond my abilities I have to meet an African king Of a decently powerful country tomorrow. Just time to eat, sleep, and dress— No time to shop for him. I’ll be alone on the small swift plane Except for my guard, a bed, and my gift For the king. I […]
Lynne Thompson – They
They I was a married woman, silent as a stone in water but not too old to dream of the flaring of my womb, the rigid of my jaw bone. ♒︎ How can I explain to you: my skin, leather black with time, sashayed through a room of daggers. Hard to picture those sweet boys, […]
