hye (혜) by Karis Ryu

After An Suk-seon and Eleana J. Kim 생전사후 이 원통을 알어 줄이가 뉘 있드란 말이냐  춘향가 중 “쑥대머리” I once read a book about landmines.  It described a man whose name I don’t remember scavenging along the DMZ. I don’t remember  how, but the metal in the landmines made him a  life in his...

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 torethe veins out with our teeth. For seconds,we licked the twigs until they were paleand our tongues were sore. Third, we spikedthe branches between...

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...

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