How do we rule? In words derived from Latin? Whispers from a dead tongue? Rolling with the punches, crippled by the lunches, feasts of fat men suffering in …
What Does It Mean? (Emilie Collyer)
O One One has One his has be One it his mean has this be One I it when his .mean something has before this Can be ? One the …
Sail (Sam van Zweden)
I heard they built streets in Europe on dead river beds throwing down tiles in denial when it rains streets flood al fresco floating down stream deluge-diluted lattes gondolas …
A Grave Turn (Ashley Capes)
streets have a saliva sheen, the stones bathing in it. fog is school-pants grey, thick on the tongue. the older trams shudder until they stop and the conductor retires. drunks …
Bag Bog Cat, the Caterpillar an’ the Glue Man (Andrew Galan)
Horse serrations vibrate floorboards ta’ squeal a rockin’ billycock woe · · an’ we was diggin’ ditches an’ shovelin’ mud an’ burnin’ faeces when the Caterpillar said sorry, sorry was for …
The Upstairs Food Court (Andrew Galan)
Rubber tyre rolls bain-marie aisles grips heavy toddler centrifugally snug three kids run beside reaching pushing scream delight across fluorescent tiles tread bounces down metal staircase arm waves round’n’round …
The List Grows (Emilie Collyer)
This is what you can’t do. It’s a list that grows. Like that taunt boys used to write on blackboards: the more you rub the bigger it gets. Pink …
Wrinkled Time (Gabrielle Bryden)
Madeleine L’Engle wrinkled time. crumples, crinkles, dips waves, ripples, loops stringy twirls oscillating tendrils freewheelin’ in non-linear time Breath ceases, baby cries for the first time, life …
The Petrov Poems: Done (Lesley Lebkowicz)
He slides the documents out of the KGB safe into an envelope and settles his future under his shirt – its straight edges buckle against his belly. He buttons …
The Petrov Poems: A charm to keep him safe (Lesley Lebkowicz)
He won’t leave until April the third, the day his successor is due. He’ll tie up all the loose ends and hand over the codes the accounts his notes. …