Subjects & Themes
epub |eng | 2017-06-05 | Author:Gregory Cenac [Cenac, Gregory]

THE COMMONS You and I, We sit together On the commons, My head on your lap. Others there with us On the commons. A couple sit Facing one another. A ...
( Category: Places February 7,2023 )
epub |eng | 2020-02-15 | Author:Philip Gross

into forgetting, but still… The Ten Thousand Things move like flickers of light across the surface of the Nothing that’s anything but. We dredge in deep-sea sludge for small and ...
( Category: Nature February 7,2023 )
epub |eng | 2020-02-15 | Author:Stephanie Young

the poem is long, like life soupy, thick with it I go away with not men to the country you are in rehearsal again a play about solitary confinement you ...
( Category: Places February 6,2023 )
epub |eng | | Author:Robert Long

The Long Island Night Nothing as miserable has happened before. The Long Island night has refused its moon. La belle dame sans merci’s next door. The Prince of Darkness is ...
( Category: Places February 6,2023 )
epub |eng | 2023-01-10 | Author:Camille de Toledo [Toledo, Camille de]

so it goes with the lineage of men who die: a fiction of strength that holds fast and then lets go…but again, at this point I know nothing, understand nothing, ...
( Category: Death February 5,2023 )
epub |eng | | Author:Tom Pow

We weren’t exactly mapping the city, but there was an unsaid sense of testing its possibilities – or of saying a drawn out goodbye. I can’t recall ever being watched ...
( Category: Places February 4,2023 )
epub |eng | | Author:CJ Evans

THREE AN ORCHARD IS A FOREST WE BROKE Walk with me the rows and whir: poor trees poor trees poor wildness clipped, fruit plucked, ugly branches robbed of the weight ...
( Category: Nature February 2,2023 )
epub |eng | | Author:K.B. Marie

then & now I spend a lot of time alone. I choose this now. As a neglected child, it was a given. Writing requires an abandonment of one’s body and ...
( Category: Places February 2,2023 )
epub |eng | 2022-03-09 | Author:Michael Fraser

* * * Blockade They’re trying to buy the sea’s silence from shore, stuff its mouth dry with ballast as surging channel waves rummage stone harbour-walls. John Bull’s British sloops ...
( Category: Places February 1,2023 )
epub |eng | 2019-02-15 | Author:Dave Harris [Harris, Dave]

SON My train I untuck my shirt before I get on the train. Here the costume begins. It’s a 30-minute ride from Haverford to 69th Street. I make a mess ...
( Category: Death February 1,2023 )
epub |eng | 2017-08-29 | Author:David Rachels [Rachels, David]

Honeymoon I On his wedding night He beat his bride just to Get it out of the way. Honeymoon II On her wedding night She beat her groom just to ...
( Category: Death February 1,2023 )
epub |eng | | Author:Matthew Shenoda

the whirling of date palms the journey of exchange floating on the placid ambit of affection each strand a key to uncover the temple of understanding mired by the elastic ...
( Category: Places February 1,2023 )
epub |eng | 2013-08-28 | Author:Marge Piercy [Piercy, Marge]

Some wood bends and some breaks. Some we shape into baskets, wicker, some into toothpicks, some into beams that carry the weight of our lives. But this petrified triangle beside ...
( Category: Places January 31,2023 )
epub |eng | 2017-11-02 | Author:Christina Hart [Hart, Christina]

In a better world, I would have saved you. In a perfect world, you wouldn’t have needed saving at all. THE STRANGE WAY I don’t know if he notices the ...
( Category: Death January 31,2023 )
epub |eng | | Author:Edith Marcombe Shiffert

Golden Venus In a sealike evening sky a golden honeybee makes wing sounds like buzzing ears. . . . On the other side of the valley by the mountain opposite, ...
( Category: Places January 31,2023 )