Toward Openness Bound in red fir, the fragrant breath of a Central Valley As they say breadbasket, an open data, Bound in headwaters, the Mokelumne, the San Joaquin. The bottomlands. Eggs … [Read more...]
Poetry Archive
Three poems by Bailey Grey
reflections by naming an ocean / we shrink it / it gains sharp edges and an orientation / (who decided that north means up?) we are like reflections in spoons / (cotton balls and lighters) … [Read more...]
Four poems by Allan Graubard: For Steve Dalachinsky, Ira Cohen, and Ronnie Burk
I am reading Lundkvist's dreams when he was in a … [Read more...]
Three poems by Constance Bacchus
helen imagines she is cailleach on a snowed in Thursday wears a wig of stiff twigs glasses, holding the sun hat, a lot of makeup or none she has a feather brown flying coat rainbowed scarf, … [Read more...]
Two poems by Lynne Schmidt
When My Sister Calls My sister calls to ask me “Why would my dog be bleeding from his mouth?” She asks me because I am a dog person. She asks me because I have a degree in medical biology … [Read more...]
Poems by Mesándel Virtusio Arguelles, translated by Kristine Ong Muslim
Reptile He had been visited by countless frogs and snakes were nesting in his room. Although he was always trapped between trepidation and awe, he relished each encounter as … [Read more...]
Three poems by María C. Domínguez
A house with two cats I have come here thinking it was a home, a release even if rented and the landlord is loud and flirts too much. I took two aeroplanes, two red buses, climbed a mountain … [Read more...]
Two poems by Candice Kelsey
like a collapsed lung A poem walks into a pandemic and starts tearing up its lines to make medical grade masks tossing its punctuation tiny prayers darkening the emptiness between its … [Read more...]
Two poems by German Dario
food the border is not a lava vein the wind will tell you that a pencil line insults crisp white paper when used to divide the border is a butterfly's torso a wave's dance as it … [Read more...]
Two poems from Stilled Somewhere Possible by Cheryl Pallant
English Refrains Pine, ginko, and chestnut complement the land Talk, discussion and argument volunteer time Ask to establish … [Read more...]
Three poems by Zach Linge
First Week Without You Vintage and rented books stacked beside my pillow, boxers knotted around my calves, asphyxiated by my sweater midday, I’m sorry: I have found without you the bed … [Read more...]
Three poems by Erin Russell
Harlingen Dis(a)sembled i. the way their mother said values— and blond kids scowled, they were suspicious behind thatched thighs: our kiss on the pier travelling north of Amsterdam, out … [Read more...]
Three poems by Elizabeth Threadgill
You Plucked Bees from My Hair like vibrating seeds each tells a secret the trees are singing the rabbits are drumming the squirrels are screaming while the mower runs in circles your … [Read more...]
Two poems by Robyn Pickens
Ida / Ajna My grandmother is a psychic channel / is an aquatic plant / is a lotus flower / is Padma / is the purple luminescence of the moon / is the seed syllable OM / is the supreme sound of the … [Read more...]
Three poems by Tasha Cotter
Incarnadine The word a color of flesh— a tongue, Rough skin, the inside of your cheek. We’ve all dreamed in those shades Of red and pain. Wake up – you were Calling out in your sleep. The soft … [Read more...]
Two Collaborative Poems by Danielle Rose and Bailey Grey
bootcfg /rebuild i have to believe i am pulses counting to one / & so i imagine the damage a pair of wire-cutters could inflict / because i have been told the mind is a processor / & so i … [Read more...]
Two poems by Alexus Erin
And So I missed autumn: it ran past me. The leaves and feathers, elms and erins built themselves an island coastline of useless request: asking the people we love to account for their … [Read more...]
Two poems by Alan Chazaro
On Being Evicted from Earth I’m not convinced I should be leaving, but I’ve already left. Between moons I’ve become displaced, the dance of lost tectonics. Maybe that’s why I move silently beneath … [Read more...]
Notes on Three Lost Poems by Gregory Corso
In a life of wide and restless travels, Gregory Corso produced six collections of poetry, together with a handful of plays and a novel, but left trailing in the wake of his urgent journeys an unknown … [Read more...]
Two poems by Carson Faust
[As described by settlers in the early 70s]: [My parents and grandparents were not from this area.] Call me home. However many mothers ago. It only hurt when they unstitched the skin, right? … [Read more...]
