Two Poems — Benjamin Niespodziany An Intermission of Victimized Crime...

Cats suffer from dementia too. Did you know that? Ours did. Not the black one, smart enough to be neurotic and evade the vet. The other one, the furrier’s muff, the piece of fluff. She’d writhe aro…

Winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize (2002)The word ‘eunoia,’ which literally means ‘beautiful thinking,’ is the shortest word in English that contains all five vowels. Directly inspired by the Oulipo (...

A poem by Vivek Shraya.

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Geometry of the indolent, the shirkers,               the holstered ratchet and Metallica T, the rigger in cycling gloves, the paid-up member,            …

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Midway through, a haunted computer types its own questions: “Would you like to meet a ghost?” “Do you live to shovel sand or shovel sand to live?” It’s…

very grateful to editor R. J. Gooseman for publishing a small poem by me in One Shot Magazine, a neat new publication where you get to submit only once, ever. 🎯

1 Meanwhile the expressway’s hum, it roars into Her, the expressway cargo and tree-lined, stretched Radio towers, mowers its horns and hogs, its beef And…

when elasticity breaks

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1 Meanwhile the expressway’s hum, it roars into Her, the expressway cargo and tree-lined, stretched Radio towers, mowers its horns and hogs, its beef And…

I am new to all this taking— A novice haver, a modern girl, new to hunger’s tacky finger None of this I even want,

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Time collapses between the lips of strangers    my days collapse into a hollow tube soon implodes against now like an iron wall my eyes are blocked with…

Mortality, Love, Ethics, Civilization, Divine Presence, Human Body, Modernity, The Natural World, and Constructed Spaces. The Sentinel watches and reports back to us in a voice that is timeless and wo...

Loneliness is the fundamental condition of life — we are born by another, but born alone; die around others (if we are lucky and loved), but die alone; we spend our lives islanded in our one …

I haven’t set my alarm in six weeks. I’m still an early riser, though, and there’s something about my morning rituals in the (temporarily) quiet house that are comforting, even meaningful. It’s whe…

for A, I and J – three folks who have articulated their troubles to me of late. and for all who are suffering in this shitebox of a world. we have each other. just a lil reminder

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Gwen Aube For Leonie   in the procession i mutter what i hope is a french-sounding sorrow merci says everyone hi dear, i’m so sorry, i love you i say to you, i’m so sorry for your loss i say t…

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A New York Times NotableFeatured on NPR’S “Fresh Air”A Los Angeles Times “Most Anticipated” “Startlement is a book of rare treasures. With lyrical mastery and intimate storytelling, Limón’s poetry…

The Swimmer’s Moment by Margaret Avison For everyone The swimmer's moment at the whirlpool comes, But many at that moment will not say