It’s quite chilly, And this occurs in a rain-foam How will Mercury live? It dares, scared on the first day. It says, “How misty, sticky, chilly, foggy.” “Yah!” it says, breathy in freezing smoke. Look, like particle pieces of grinding rain. See, so slippery. Water, melting easy in the rain-foam. Chilly, misty soap-foam. Hi! Rain, […]
Poetry 71
William Aleer Mabil: ONE WITH HIS OWN STRENGTHENING
A troop of ants walking in a vertical line, They take a long trek from north to the direction of northwest. They cross the great desert of hunger and thirst. Their life is near the grave of death, like nose to mouth. Yeeh! Sound the metal-rod. They are scared, For the entire womb, incubated, they […]
Amanda Lichtenstein: Desert Walking
My aunt carries turkey soup on her head my aunt in the middle of the Sahara, walking with scalding hot turkey soup, carrying it across the desert, turkey bones knocking against the sweaty plastic of her yellow thermos. she sings when she walks. her mascara drips, black paint streaking down her face. Tears for Terry, […]
Kris T. Kahn: INEBRIATE
Like the feel of bottle between the balls of palms, the mere look of it after all these years, golden and sleek like honey or some god, the caress, the deft stroke as across and down a shoulder, a hip bone; like the eyes knowing what they have missed, the stomach craving just one amber […]
Matt Hart: Chop-Chop on the Cherry Tree, Cherry Chop-Chop
Chop-chop on the cherry tree, cherry chop-chop. Our legends dissolve in a panoply of whispers. In fabulous strain. In a frisking of whiskers we watch the experiment spin down the drain the soap-on-a-rope still hanging and the little plastic ship in the sink on the lake. In the street children banging on cast iron pots […]
Rebecca Cook: Third Person Going Down
Something about the throat the back of it how it opens to let things in how certain things can’t get down it is a trapdoor opening onto the dark basement there is water there things floating I am up to my knees I can’t find them anywhere I am covered with rainwater there is flooding […]