by Borys Humenyuk | Feb 18, 2026 | Uncategorized, Alphabetical Order, Poetry
[When You Clean Your Weapon] by Borys Humenyuk When you clean your weaponWhen time and again, you clean your weaponWhen you rub strong-smelling oils into your weaponAnd shield it from the rain with your own bodyWhen you swaddle it like a babyEven though you’ve never... by Allison Adelle Hedge Coke | Feb 18, 2026 | Alphabetical Order, Poetry, Uncategorized
Viscera by Allison Adelle Hedge Coke for Rachelle 4/27/2020 Our moms were widows before they met our fathers. Their hair blue-black, their hands already chapped, caressed by Inglis die cast tooling Bren... by Abraham Ibn Ezra | Feb 17, 2026 | Alphabetical Order, Poetry, Uncategorized
If I started selling candles… by Abraham Ibn Ezra If I started selling candles,the sun would never go down.If I started selling funeral shrouds,people would stop dying.If I went into the arms trade,universal peace would break out. Abraham Ibn Ezra was born in... by David Gewanter | Feb 17, 2026 | Alphabetical Order, Poetry, Uncategorized
“Second Eden” by David Gewanter Thomas Hardy The blood their parents gave them seems like original sin –hugs and kisses, saliva or cuts might pull another child in. They’re careful at the park, for carefulness will save themfrom spending their... by John Olivares Espinoza | Feb 17, 2026 | Alphabetical Order, Poetry, Uncategorized
Why I Decided to Stay In School by John Olivares Espinoza I’m writing a poemin the dim light of my livingroom, when Albert, the youngestof my brothers, walks incomplaining about his jobat the Metro 8 Cinema,and tells me aboutsweeping the floors andpushing through the... by Gunnar Ekelöf | Feb 16, 2026 | Alphabetical Order, Poetry, Uncategorized
Poetics by Gunnar Ekelöf You should listen to the silencethe silence behind applications and allusionsthe silence in the rhetoricor in the so called formally completeThis is a search for meaninglessnessin what is meaningfuland the other way aroundAnd everything I so...