Browsing Category Poems

• 

  Poems

  Two Poems

  Say that I am the cassette tape Whose hair unwound, underwater— Whose hair, you swim through.

  By Christopher Soto
• 

  Poems

  Four Poems

  “Each one of my breasts,” she cried, “is 3lbs / of pure gold / & if you don’t believe me, tough!”

  By Katie Condon
• 

  Poems

  At your bedside

  Asleep in this bleached place, a separate world

  By Mary Catherine Kinniburgh
• 

  Poems

  Four Poems

  We felt dangerous // like cowboys trying to swagger with legs / wrapped up in garbage bags and electrical tape / to keep out the ice-melt. The road

  By Hilary Vaughn Dobel
• 

  Poems

  Three Miley Cyrus Poems

  Throw a ring, win a fish. I have so much to say / about wild animals.

  By Talin Tahajian
• 

  Poems

  The Cake

  and your mother comes to visit / and she says honey you look so / thin you thin thing / you thin wet thing

  By Krystin Gollihue
• 

  Poems

  Three Poems

  it’s almost too late / I keep thinking but / for what I’m not sure / having woken repeatedly / in the night with / the pitiful coughing

  By MRB Chelko
• 

  Poems

  Five Poems

  On the seat behind her an old woman tells the story of her long affair with a man named Vidic. He’s dead now. The man from somewhere else.

  By Elizabeth Clark Wessel
• 

  Poems

  Two Poems

  It was a surprise to discover my body, collapsed like a bridge, / but still beautiful, still wet with snow.

  By Catherine Pond
• 

  Poems

  Two Poems

  Winter siphons this cigarette out / an attic window, and heat I don’t pay for follows / almost as an afterthought — sorry.

  By Andrew Dally
• 

  Poems

  In the memory of photos

  thn i remmbrd… i can nt remmber

  By Seldon Yuan
• 

  Poems

  Forest fire, supper time

  igniting // tinder in the ditch / you call worship

  By K.T. Billey