Under the transmitter towers a papaya garden receiving rain. A thousand silent swallows came. From you, no message. Feeling for the right stone in opaque water — fish-trap building. Banana tree — …
Wishbone
(Emily Crocker)
Taking your hip bones from the countertop I wish to clothe you from the linen cupboard. Organic bamboo. Modern greys. …
An Abyss of Feathers
(Anne Elvey)
memorial coin a rainbow of magic possums plays ring-a-rosie on the $2 coin she passes for the boat ride to free- dom saying listen listen to me listen to the …
Observance (Anne Casey)
To stand naked on cold stone Emptied cups cascading Past unblinded eyes As hands and feet are washed Within a sea concentric circles pooled As beneath the welling surface A …
Selective Mutism
(Alison Bennett)
she is fight or flight volcanic dynamite a raging accident that was never meant to happen so she begins to swallow her voice into pretend smiles her body now a …
Serpent (Anna Jacobson)
By the time I see you, seventy-one angels have descended from heaven, chopped off your hands and feet, split your tongue. You crawl along your belly. Vanish. By the time …
Poems from Diaspora (Ivy Alvarez)
*Ligaw-insik Maybe we can be together. Maybe I can say the words. What can I whisper? My shoes brace against the metal gate. I am a key now and somehow …
TRUTH IN THE CAGE
You can find my whole life in my poems, like a letter to God. – Mohammad Ali Maleki Verity La and Rochford Street Press are proud to announce the publication of Mohammad …
A Tuesday with Two Heads
(Jayne Fenton Keane)
Last Letter At arm’s length. A letter in a frying pan. A smoking Dear John. Slap on meat, pour over cognac, watch the veal flare. The next day a doctor …
stone beach on kos (Linda Godfrey)
echoes smack on a photograph/ show about twelve/ all standing round in their morning/ like our thoughts/ all children have to leave somewhere/ and yet fishponds reflect/ if not actual …