Rice cake for Tết It comes to you steaming on a plate, tight wrapped, a hospital-cornered cushion of leaves. First you cut the strings – tied into a loop so it could be fished out of boiling water. Fingers inured to heat you lift off the layers, no need to be careful anymore. You canContinue reading “Rice cake for Tết. A poem by Lang-Hoan Pham”
Category Archives: Uncategorized
3 poems by Marion de Vos-Hoekstra
Pheromones Shamelessly they quiver in Spring breeze like pink tongues of panting dogs, lust for sun, breathe out those invisible vapors to seduce their pollinating lovers: no conscience, those flowers, or is there? Animals flehm, a grimace on their faces, curl their upper lip like a smile, bare their teeth, not for aggression,Continue reading “3 poems by Marion de Vos-Hoekstra”
the flypaper motel. A poem by Josephine LoRe
the flypaper motel she was six, maybe seven unbuckled, back seat of the Catalina John Coltrane on the radio the first time that she passed it the Flypaper Motel words suspended like motes Mother’s eyes averted Father’s look lingering long as it receded to nothing in the rear-view mirror a speck on dry horizonContinue reading “the flypaper motel. A poem by Josephine LoRe”
The dreamery inshore. An ephrastic poem by Paweł Markiewicz
Picture of Abraham Hulk The dreamery inshore A dreamed ship has gone aground at the most marvelous and dreamiest afterglow. The mast adverts to orientation of a tender Morning star. Seafarers died at midnight feeling the sea-like fantasy. The wind wrenched a canvas, such a Golden Fleece, to the piratical islands. The sea isContinue reading “The dreamery inshore. An ephrastic poem by Paweł Markiewicz”
3 poems by Eva Tihanyi
A 21ST CENTURY POEM FOR GLORIA STEINEM 1. Start with this: a man on a sidewalk, a large man on a narrow sidewalk, the sidewalk in a midnight city, any season. Across the street a woman reaches her doorstep, fumbles for keys in the darkness. This could be 1972 or 50Continue reading “3 poems by Eva Tihanyi”
3 poems by SUN Qian. Translated by Yin Xiaoyuan
The Encounter Between Snow and Cherry Blossoms The melancholic should listen with more concentration to a voice beyond words. Descending from the heavens of the sophisticated gyri the whispers sound so calm and limpid like murmured prayers in the wind. Melodies of the multi-voice hymns are usually undistinguishable in the slumbering bass of this world;Continue reading “3 poems by SUN Qian. Translated by Yin Xiaoyuan”
2 poems by I.B. Iskov
Nocturnal Inspiration White light spires glow in magnificence from one small candle. Flickers of fallout land on my lap while writing a brand new poem in brilliant quietness. One fanciful flame keeps me wakeful between the fire and the flash, between nightfall and morning. The Trucker on the 401Continue reading “2 poems by I.B. Iskov”
The Word. A poem by Christopher Galano
The Word za Anu I met a man who sang of lilies down-spiralling on a bier garden— who sang of ivory petals alighting ashen corpses and red dust— who sang of dancers kicking up red dust into the atmosphere— who sang of dancers banging glasses, splashing drinks on ashen corpses— who sang ofContinue reading “The Word. A poem by Christopher Galano”
3 poems by Zdravko Odorcic
THE SCENT OF HOLOCAUST For a long time I have been digging the hardness of the ground With my nails I touch the paleness of the skin unknown Wondering how they are my unmoving neighbours Coldly rigid laying or curvely dead I don’t know where you arrived from and when the death touched youContinue reading “3 poems by Zdravko Odorcic”
2 poems by Sevda Akyuz
notes towards an operation let my solitude see me off a woman’s voice in the next room hard as it may seem I celebrate life in a blue room awaiting laparatomy ‘cos there is a big lump in my belly like a watermelon said an orderly elated andContinue reading “2 poems by Sevda Akyuz”
WordCityLit 