by Destiny Weiss | Aug 1, 2024 | 2024 July, Poetry
Escape from posthumous platitudes toBe a truth they cannot denyDespite all their search forA One and OnlyPasted over and overUntil we reach some perverse word countAs long as we reach the endSince at least there is one No more worries aboutWhat comes after a rest that...
by Destiny Weiss | Jul 29, 2024 | 2024 July, Poetry
The day of the truck crash, someone drove me to church, A few days before the new year, I saw a fox in my arms the teddy bear the firefighters gave me, carrying a rabbit in its mouth as it crossed the asphalt it had been raining, which is why we hydroplaned your dad’s...
by Destiny Weiss | Jul 28, 2024 | 2024 July, Poetry
There’s a trail, bleached under sunlight, that begins by a river that cascades like snow,curved like an ellipse. The jargon of green and brown hues dappled beneath a layerof clear water, frogs dragged their bodies ...
by Surosree Chaudhuri | Jun 9, 2024 | 2024 June, Poetry
This is the easy part of the journey: our submarine still at Sunlight level, jellyfish bodies pressed flush against window glass. In this lifetime – we have just barely scratched the surface of the Atlantic, the tide vomiting us and its glories back against the...
by Destiny Weiss | Jun 7, 2024 | 2024 June, Poetry
Behind the backdoor of our house are leaves and dirt strewn across the gardenwe invented as a child, pecks of canola flowers and bushes sprouting unevenly.Trunks of the palm trees we used to...
by Surosree Chaudhuri | Jun 6, 2024 | 2024 June, Poetry
when he had stood up in his own grave greeted by his sisters and brother-apostles — did Lazarus feel a twinge of craving? did he watch as Martha accidentally sliced her finger instead of dough; did he want severed flesh, gaping flesh in that angry and hungry way? the...
