poetry-magazineFrom “First Light: 88 Frequencies” [“everyone’s/drawing the”]By CAConradeveryone’s drawing the Death Card the chair pressing Related Audio LivingDeathThe MindDoubt & Contemplation
poetry-magazineChicken for BreakfastBy Kazim AliA book led me to the particular performance of the cello suiteAnd watching the cellist play so tentatively… Related Audio LivingSorrow & GrievingThe MindDoubt & Contemplation
poetry-magazineRiseBy Kazim Alihome flowers grewwho drew me inthis shape my tow-ropedrawn at dawn who rosein air who dispersed in hours… Related Audio The MindDoubt & ContemplationTime & Brevity
poetry-magazineFrom “First Light: 88 Frequencies” [“fruit fly”]By CAConrad fruit flyborn in hotel room Related Audio LivingLife ChoicesThe MindDoubt & Contemplation
poetry-magazineFour TankaBy Shizuka OmoriTranslated By Yuki TanakaGuiltis emptied out of a bodythat standslike a scarecrow—is that what a poem is?Touching is different… Related Audio Social CommentariesGender & SexualityThe MindDoubt & Contemplation
poetry-magazineThe OstrichesBy Dorothea LaskyIn every rose there is the scent of deathI thought I was one of themBut I’m not and I’ve never beenWho… Related Audio The MindDoubt & ContemplationAnxiety & Insecurity
poetry-magazineThe StarBy Dorothea LaskyHelen Frankenthaler is an evil eyeI put her behind meAnd hoped for the bestEven she knewI was lyingLying… Related Audio The MindDoubt & ContemplationArts & SciencesPoetry & Poets
poetry-magazineAn OptimismBy Cameron Awkward-RichIt is morning. Remember that.It is morning and the house is quiet,so quiet that I can, for the moment… Related Audio LivingLife ChoicesThe MindDoubt & Contemplation
poetry-magazineDo No Harm/I Dream of GoatBy Mona ArshiI haven’t killed a single thing inMonths and hand on heartIt’s getting tiresome.I take soft steps in… Related Audio The MindDoubt & ContemplationMythology & FolkloreGreek & Roman Mythology
poetry-magazineOctober 9By Jesse NathanFor today I’ll try to memorize the strange wide shapeof two writhing coast oaksthe way a fog looks like… Related Audio The MindDoubt & Contemplation
poetry-magazineSpiral, Surrounded by Spoiled Accord (Or, Schizoaffective, Unspecified)By Rickey Laurentiis What I have done is created History, exquisite manuscripts With angering blame. What I have done is… Related Audio LivingLife ChoicesThe MindDoubt & ContemplationAngerBlame
poetry-magazineOvercast SkyBy Nakahara ChūyaTranslated By Jeffrey Angles one morning I saw a black flagfluttering up there in the sky the flag fluttered back and forth back… Related Audio The MindDoubt & ContemplationTime & Brevity
poetry-magazineBharti Kher—Confess (2010)By Rochelle Hurt[if you marry your confession, you can live alone inside it. no priest behind the window. no wife or… Related Audio LivingLife ChoicesThe MindDoubt & ContemplationTypes/ModesEkphrasis
poetry-magazineEn la sala de velación: SeptiembreBy bruno daríoBarrí toda mi casa, y la encontré otra. En los rincones había otros más pequeños que la máscara de polvo… Related Audio LivingLife ChoicesThe MindDoubt & Contemplation
poetry-magazine短歌四首By Shizuka Omoriやましさが案山子のように立っているからだを抜けてくるのか歌は触れることは届くことではないのだがてのひらに蛾を移して遊ぶ後ずさりできぬ鳥たち 二人称をずたずたにする夕焼けだった皆殺しの〈皆〉に女はふくま… Related Audio Social CommentariesGender & SexualityThe MindDoubt & Contemplation
poetry-magazine曇天By Nakahara Chūya ある朝 僕は 空の 中に、 黒い 旗が はためくを 見た。 はたはた それは はためいて いたが、 音は きこえぬ 高きが ゆえに。 手繰り 下ろそうと 僕は したが、 綱も なければ それも 叶… Related Audio The MindDoubt & ContemplationTime & Brevity
poetry-magazineFuneral home viewing room: SeptemberBy bruno daríoTranslated By Kit SchluterI swept my house and found another. In every corner was another smaller corner, which the dust mask … Related Audio LivingLife ChoicesThe MindDoubt & Contemplation
poetry-magazineFrom “First Light: 88 Frequencies” [“each thread”]By CAConrad each threadadded to the loom was a moment of the weaver’s life Related Audio The MindDoubt & ContemplationTime & Brevity
poetry-magazineTriolet with a Line by Sylvia PlathBy Brittany PerhamWe take the N out to the turnaround.The only thing to come now is the sea.The ice plants make the pink… Related Audio NatureThe MindDoubt & Contemplation
poetry-magazineInfinity PoolBy Vona GroarkeI had it in the night, the image,but lacked the energy or willto magic my body throughmy own fourth … Related Audio LivingLife ChoicesThe MindDoubt & ContemplationArts & SciencesPoetry & Poets