Volume 9, Issue 1
Your Excellencies
Your excellencies / You've won / We no longer discuss / Your FAILURES / In our majlis / Under tree shades / By the roadsides / We only discuss / Our…
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Volume 9, Issue 1
April 2024 in New York with a Line from Moonstruck
For Samer Alatout / Cops arrest protesters at CUNY / and the fountain at Lincoln Plaza / helpless and beautiful as God / descends from the Catskills / lit…
Volume 9, Issue 1
Jennifer versus Climate Change
I’m palpating tomatoes at the farmer’s market / and I turn to Jennifer who I haven’t seen / since the remnant of Hurricane Ida hit / and I say to her:…
Volume 8, Issue 3
Futile Poem
When I lived alone everything was futile. / Trying to get up from my futon was futile. / I kept a tall banana plant and a small reptile, / but the climate…
Volume 8, Issue 3
Dragonfly at Delphi
Watch her there! / She falls and rises surely / within this forge of air that tries us all - / beyond us, at long last. / A god’s voice from the fissure,…
Volume 8, Issue 3
Acropolis
He rears there from the pediment, / the horse of the moon. / One flexing leg close by / on plundered ground, its heat / the blood and fire of ages / who…
Volume 8, Issue 3
A street that had a name
Christchurch, New Zealand / - in the residential red zone left by the quakes of 2010-11 / It’s a street that had a name / But it no longer needs one / No…
Volume 8, Issue 3
Do I Practise Life?
Do I practise life? / Do I train for the trials yet to come / Like / the / Canada / geese / do? / Or do I just wing it? / Is it just a rolling reaction to…
Volume 8, Issue 3
St Nicholas Chapel, Għargħur
how can I make of this vacant space / a place of rest? / it’s just a room where stone must speak / of finitude / beyond it is the summons of the sea – /…
Volume 8, Issue 3
Pleading Guilty
I avoid you, Elsewhere! / I am not there and age can be a good excuse / for something one can’t bear – / I listen to birds chirp / protest at trees…
Volume 8, Issue 3
Sign
Graphically little separates / short from snort. / A stem. / Archaic rain; / speaking of which / do you speak / sign? / Then put your hands out, / feel…
Volume 8, Issue 3
The Elders
… smile insouciantly, / though they sweeten the day / when you walk by and mostly / ignore their slow movements. / You catch their eyes briefly / and you…