Selected Poems by E.R. De Siqueira

Facetiming (First lockdown, 2020) how soon is it hanging up the phone & instantly sigh almost dial back & yearn for that voice materialised—your stubbled chin— knowing it’s crimson dark at the Bosphorus & still mid-afternoon outside my window              ...

Selected Poems by Luigi Coppola

We Used Every Part of the Tree Set to music here: https://youtu.be/3sJgo6577dA  First, we lapped at every leaf then tore the veins out with our teeth. For seconds, we licked the twigs until they were pale and our tongues were sore. Third, we spiked the branches...

Three transatlantic songs by Erin Clark

1. That annoying midwesterner who loves snow   What Brits call “grit”—safety substance— to dissolve ice and snow. Salt-commingled sand,reddish like a radish, ferrous, but mostlythe color of pink sick on the groundearly in the morning outside a nightclub.Somehow...

Selected Poems by Ciaran McDermott

What the Trees Say at Dawn Oneduskymoon-honeyed glissandothreaded through thorned ribcagefluxed mosaic of sustained blossomrefracted in delicate chords of light probingumbra of submarine rasp grasping for a...

Selected Poems by Kym Deyn

The Ballachulish Figure (alder wood and rough crystal c. 600 BC.) Listed among notable deaths of the era:a passenger pigeon at Loch Leven.We’re extinguishing ourselves, Cailleach.Age of Bronze, Age of Iron, Age of Decay.A taxidermy pigeon, Nestlé bottled...

Reflections by George Parker

Finding the Vulva on a Beach    Latin-wise, as vagina, I am sheath, made for holding life. I aman oyster shell, made for children to cup, hollow to hollow, against their ears. To press into hands of their own giants, to say, Listen, and have one towering pillar...

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