KATRINA ROBERTS
Four Visual Poems
FOR WHOM AMONG US HAS NOT FELT HERSELF a CIPHER
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Weekly poems, selected by the editors. Featuring new work as well as poems from our rich archives.
KATRINA ROBERTS
RICHARD KENNEY
Sword Upstairs
Is this tower the chanter / of the sky’s pipes, or the dry syrinx / of the dead bird of the sky?
ALLAN PETERSON
I thought all life came from the alphabet
You have my word on it hand on it /
a book a note a dying sun behind a cloud
JENNIFER CHANG
Two Poems
I had /
a love. A blue /
kite untwisting /
the sky.
JOE HALL
I Hate That You Died
the news: yr dead, I look /
at the page, grow /
broken at the root
MAHMOUD DARWISH
Here They Are the Words
Here they are the words fluttering in the mind
RACHEL MORGENSTERN-CLARREN
Saline Pulse
my love / unwinding / the rope
KRISTEN STEENBEEKE
i go through phases
sometimes i crouch like a creature in my house
MICHAEL PRIOR
Two Poems
If a memory bears radiation’s / relationship to time
ANNA MARIA HONG
Maiden
Other birds punctuate (our) song