poetry

Image Credit: Camile Corot, A Woman Reading   It’s May 10, 2019, and it’s a sweltering evening in middle Georgia—specifically Milledgeville, Georgia—home of Flannery O’Connor (a Georgia College and State…

Viraha   There was no country home enough to collect every childhood I had to strip off. Just the chatter of breeze    puzzling the quiet rajnigandha. An early knowledge…

To start this series I’m thinking of a quote from an interview with the writer Etel Adnan: “… [images] they are pure feeling. They’re like something that calls you through…

author photo: Lisa Low LISA LOW was born and raised in Maryland. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in cream city review, The Journal, Vinyl, The Collagist, and elsewhere.…

8 “small book” paintings by Linda Saccoccio   “This series is from a book of 135 paintings spawned from dreams, poetry fragments and the vitality painting enables.”  -Linda Saccoccio  …

Seamstress of Bandages   I cannot eliminate desire Like monks can       but I can           blunt my Self in other ways in daily ritual before…

Tender is the administration of night (for the Dutch poet Joop Bersee) I am Pompeii. There is a map in my hands. I unearth ancient scrolls. Better the devil you…

⌘ Bluebirds Renting the Squash Studio  A storm approaches dark energy bursting rumbling toward, I sit outside in my bathrobe and wait for the bluebirds to return to their new house,…

Problem Solver, People Person, Attention to Detail At last, I am the everyone you’ve been hoping for, the perfect solution of absence and energy necessary for the job. I recognize…

nature poem pressed at the same time by the soul’s desire and the body’s need   have you seen my big gay face it’s something blurred something blue? never nothin…

  I’m On Ten-Thousand I’m here to restore the natural order what you know is only what was recorded the voice that matters is the one silenced the base is…

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The Splendor And Misery Of Bodies And Cities My father falls asleep to the export of the American smile. A homeless man lectures the air on the DNC. “Everything is…

In Wordsworth’s autobiographical poem The Prelude—one of the great memory-epics, along with Proust’s—there is a section describing the process of recollection that speaks to me with particular relevance right now.…