Drunk Girls in the Bathroom We showed each other our titsfor some reason, and she lit uplike the Fourth of July and toldme that mine sit real pretty. Shehad a…
Poetry
Roz Kaveny: from the Selected Poems
After Sappho 84 Parting’s deathsorrow. Weeping walked away‘Things worked against us, Sappho.’ In her grief.‘It’s not your fault.’ A comfortable belief.I found brow-stroking calming things to say.‘Child you were loved.…
Poems from “A Crown of Violets”
The Drowned Women Now is the hour when the drowned arise,Like water lilies whose white bloom has fled.Their gowns are full and wide as unfurled sailsThat will not see their…
Voodoo
When he found it, we said let it alone,call the police. But he tampered with it,took money out before a squad car arrived.Baffled, the officers grew annoyed,made accusations of hoax,…
Poems from Evan Fowler’s “Seeing Thing”
Tour I stand by a pond that reflectsthe golden light of late morning;my feet hang from the sky. Two men are swimming frantically toward meyelling with throats full of waterdesperate…
Paul Hostovsky: Poems
Spiritual Mom Mom got spiritual in her late fifties,and we really had no patience for allthe forgiveness. It was disconcertingthe way she’d kneel down on the floorin the middle of…
Margot Farrington: Four Poems
Hunger I’d not yet eaten, but walked where the feast was spread. The first course offered wild rose in a pasture’s corner, slice of path cutting uphill to walls of…
Poems from Late Epistle
Fishing in Childhood —after lines by Tony Hoagland If we are always who we are, if our livingis finally of a piece, couldn’t we observe itcomplete in any moment—choose any…
The Hypmogoogoopizin’ Man: His Legend
Anciently, when God did ordain to claim this drear and waste domainHim did it please to bid his saintsagainst all pleading abject ‘plaintsto sojourn here ‘cross cruel seato raise The…
2 Poems: Barbara Holland
Huldra She is Swedish, and one of those,you know. Big. Green eyes and red hair,all clinging velvet and ropesof beads in the front, with coldand cleanly chiseled features.Real Nordic beautywith…