THREE POEMS BY JULIE DOXSEE Your Dry-Eye Curse Because that cloud I’m pointing to has been raining on my town six years straight it’s not the weight of the house affecting my disappearance into mud. You’d sink when the part of our body that is legs takes charge. Achilles Achilles on the moor seesContinue reading “Poems of the Week – Julie Doxsee”
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Poems of the Week – Forthcoming 42 Miles Press Author Allan Peterson
THREE POEMS BY ALLAN PETERSON Reminders Who speaks for the body? We do. Every eminence named, each fossa, eloquent structures of shining bones as if standing undone on a hill above Urbino, artists making bright lines in bright sun, bright language as the bones resurface after an interim of flesh. Ribs, phalanges, wingsContinue reading “Poems of the Week – Forthcoming 42 Miles Press Author Allan Peterson”
Poems of the Week
THREE POEMS BY SHARON DOLIN Street This is the city alleyway of windows with shadows passing for time: if it ends in an ocean or river of inanition those roofs of powder blue and terracotta pink would be a childhood sky could be trees fusing into a grand piano of Kelly green could be sheetsContinue reading “Poems of the Week”
Poems of the Week
LAURA KASISCHKE Riddle I am the mirror breathing above the sink. There is a censored garden inside of me. Over my worms someone has thrown a delicately embroidered sheet. And also the child at the rummage sale— more souvenirs than memories. I am the cat buried beneath the tangled ivy. Also the white weightless eggContinue reading “Poems of the Week”
Poems of the Week
Three poems, three poets. JENNIFER SNYDER Cafes at Night What world is it that rises From this world at night when The waitresses with wondrous Hairstyles emerge, put on skirts And Eyes, and the whole green light Behind the counter blooms into faces. We could speak of wearing raggy Shawls of boredom, or even ofContinue reading “Poems of the Week”
Poems of the Week
THREE POEMS BY LAYNIE BROWNE Letter II rain is known as soft water I am using the word “deft” to refer to a mimetic body. Though ivy faces seem not to chance while we are tangled in them. For example, the vehemence surrounding a furnace is said to cause fault lines. Their typology is basedContinue reading “Poems of the Week”
Poems of the Week
THREE POEMS BY MALENA MÖRLING. From the Train Just before the sun vanished behind a row of warehouses and before it came flooding back to rinse the shadows off our clothes I noticed something— It was only a scrap of paper, but it hung on the exposed wall of one of the partially demolished buildingsContinue reading “Poems of the Week”
Poems of the Week
THREE POEMS BY CHRISTOPHER SCHMIDT All Tomorrow’s Parties Expect no takers. Don’t hate Queens. Where everyone is smoking is and is not here. Lumberjack stares at the boyfriend, the boyfriend. Serious? Serious? Like interns on TV. Like, fun. Another malady. Cat and mouth and cant and mouse. My sentiments exact. Swallow, stumble pie could notContinue reading “Poems of the Week”
Poems of the Week
THREE POEMS BY PAUL FOSTER JOHNSON R3. War of Maneuver If the sharpshooter were a smoker cause would be the panoply of causes and action would clot around the partisan rather cigarette burns, rather upholstery buttons the tearsheet beside the page yielding paper dragons of autobiography. Your cold exercise of identity has an eye toContinue reading “Poems of the Week”
Poems of the Week
THREE POEMS BY RAE ARMANTROUT Dark Matter 1 Who am I to experience a burst of star formation? I know this – after the first rush of enthusiasm any idea recedes and dims. 2 Each one is the inverse shape of what’s missing. 3 One might try summing the matter up in a single JudasContinue reading “Poems of the Week”
