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To Miscarry a Moon (Ojo Taiye)

Verity La March 15, 2019 Heightened Talk

ELEGY FOR CLAUDIA PATRICIA GOMEZ GONZALEZ* i- every poem i write is about the same grief: how ordinary it is to want the American dream. i don’t know what Gomez …

Blood (Simonne Michelle-Wells)August 27, 2010
After twelve years of marriage his fishing hat, which sits forgotten on my armoire, is all that remains. The house creaks and groans, trying to establish a new order. The ... Read More
Three Poems for Ariel (Justin Lowe)February 6, 2015
Parvenu like all self-made men I carry the hallmark of earlier experiments. cavernous days, ghosts rattling their chains in my pocket, the haunted smile of a man caught rifling through ... Read More
Frangipani (Lyn Reeves)March 31, 2011
This morning’s walk down the wet gravel drive – bush on either side, orange gum blossom torn by last night’s wind, its bright threads scattered. Wallaby tracks indent the ... Read More