Philip Whalen’s Chair First to arrive, I wait inside the empty circle for our zazen to begin. The basement waits too, so thick with quiet and so dim it’s almost dark. Against the back door, windows green with a wet and waving … [Read more...]
6 poems by Michael Begnal
A Press of the (O) Mind 1. Phones dropped in the damp night of leaves a drizzly night picking them up then the signals dropped and trying to pick it up but that eventually they had numerous pictures of themselves online and texted some … [Read more...]
Three Poems by Alfred K. LaMotte
Pledge I pledge allegiance to no flag. I pledge allegiance to no nation, no government, no border. True patriotism is rebellion. True rebellion is joy. Cast down the mighty, the masters of war. I pledge allegiance to the poor. I pledge … [Read more...]
Poems by Drew Gardner
I HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THIS I have a problem with this idea about detonating bacon through harm reduction from putting out the bacon fires with fresh bacon. It’s pretty screwed up. Let’s learn to like it— (puts bacon in pan on stove) There … [Read more...]
Two poems by Vasilis Steriadis, translated by Yannis Livadas
The Greek poet Vasilis Steriadis [Βασίλης Στεριάδης] was one of the leading figures of Greek poetry during the period 1970-2000. Steriadis was born in 1947 in Volos and died in Athens, where he was working as a lawyer, in 2003. He studied at the … [Read more...]
the leaves are changing
the leaves are changing somewhere outside brewster it’s rare that we leave new york the island but here we’re moving with the changing leaves north on interstate weeping willow slowly changing it’s … [Read more...]
Poems by Marcia Arrieta
and therefore in such controversies where the question is put, who shall be judge? who shall decide the controversy? into the forest tumbling [dreams] iconoclast redemption the garden in the desert awaiting answers [dreams] to know the … [Read more...]
Anaphora: Four Approximations
1. This is the last time i heard music: gray scarves for the painted constellations. Eyes for trees, the flower or god's mouth? A jewel capped by time like sunlight splitting a window. Maybe death is a snowflake on yr tongue. 2. This is … [Read more...]
Two poems: The Nut Graph and Pith
The Nut Graph Fjords of desire are in a reliquary. One survives on ceremonies. A harvest forages for some time, rich outturns render some more. Sunlight has its shortcoming. I saw the weaning away of our lariat before we were cuffed by … [Read more...]
Grzegorz Wróblewski: Blue Pueblo
Only for you did I wander around on water. Now it’s worms, black birds. Voices. Someone is calling me… Something on the floor. Illuminations… Circulation of atoms. No zen. I am breathing. Reopening old wounds in Elbastreet. And you are making … [Read more...]
Painted Poetry and Painterly Poetics, an ekphrastic notion part 3: Palimpsest
Now Now is not past, but will be soon, With everything that is to come Under the stars and the white moon. An argued choice we make at noon By midnight sees us drained and dumb. Now is not past, but will be soon. If Armagnac absorbs the … [Read more...]
For Ted Joans: Poems and a Collage by Steve Dalachinsky
Le Corbeau et Le Courbet – for Ted Joans (written at Café Le Roquet – Paris 1/30/06) today the light is so bright diffused light tracing det snoaj like a backward shadow @ the origin of the world memoir of a pr. of bronze balls too cold to fuck … [Read more...]
Opium Tales at the End and two more poems by Sam Silva
Narco Trips and Stasis Ugly men not mean as a rule but stunted and demented full of strange patterns that their dreams journey on at night ...some nights, though, are sleepless ...they mutter against a droning TV where the Amazon channel plays … [Read more...]
Poetry by Line Toftsø
* The opposite of a rock the daily life of your fingers look how the birds are shining hawthorn is piercing through clumps of hair a woolen mitten smells of gasoline ash is a warm grey as early as an eye it happens that I confuse slow with soft … [Read more...]
Civilization’s Lost: Poems by Jeff Bagato
From Palace to Palace One leap over the horns of consecration— a fine arc pleases the mistress of animals so she shows her … [Read more...]
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