BY Kenzo Tobechukwu Oh, hail the bodies who succeed to look at their flesh in the mirror without pity. You have mastered the art of acceptance and of denial. I have only mastered one. It brings dense nothingness to my shoulders. Though, I will admit, this might be the greatest love affair. I remember the … Continue reading TAP ACOUSTIC
Category: Poems
FLAGS FLUTTERING (REMEMBER YOUR ANCESTORS)
BY CARL WATTS I Without a salaam or ceremony, hole of the rock, other following him; brightness washed from a winter swimmer as peoples made small, finely chipped arrowheads. Skiffs scuffed to look sufficiently skiff, mottled globe to a continent of glaring peaks nearer and nearer the beholder, translated from one world to another. Utterly … Continue reading FLAGS FLUTTERING (REMEMBER YOUR ANCESTORS)
OSMANTHUS TALE
BY G. LEPY Write write and write again After joy slowly tame pain I was writing and it was the year two thousand and nineteen I was hunting for words unseen Through fans they were empty I asked friends they laughed at me For who can pretend To end Humans glorious, mute, vain, pompous, deafening … Continue reading OSMANTHUS TALE
EATING MEAT
BY LaVana Colebrooke “Do you still do that?” he asked me and his eye turned down and his face turned in. And I felt all my internal shift begin. GUILT Feeling caught by the net of friendship and rope burned by the bondage's of emotional relationships. NERVOUS I’m not completely sure of this process of … Continue reading EATING MEAT
ACT LIKE A FISH OUT OF WATER
BY J. MILLER Call me downriverto talk likeI am nothere. You use theword cockroachI don't need amirror to see them.That's sheer agony anyways. Let's just make theword safe, so the whole riverwon't go to the trash incinerator. It's gggoing tocost a lot to redirect this river.Feel awake again, do the butter-fly. I'm starting to wake, … Continue reading ACT LIKE A FISH OUT OF WATER
MORPH
BY SARAH WEBSTER To undergo or to cause to undergo a gradual process of transformation. The longer we spent together, the more contorted we be-- came. I wrapped myself in you, and you did the same. As we laid in bed at night, I wondered who we were. Our naked bodies lying still sheets thrown … Continue reading MORPH
CHIAROSCURO
BY G. LEPY The undefeated sun in the windowCasting shadowEnough enoughGone awayLonely star of the dayI broke the glassAnd the light shattered to smithereens
UNLEARNING THE LOVE MY MOTHER TAUGHT ME
BY KENZO TOBECHUKWU But that is how you get hooked. They lure you in until you are convinced that you cannot function without. How selfish. As if you did not manage without, all this while. They lay there. In your thoughts. Whisper, whisper when all is quiet. Then they go to the tips of your … Continue reading UNLEARNING THE LOVE MY MOTHER TAUGHT ME
东湖之游
BY ANNA YANG 西湖碧荷晓残妆，东湖紅梅俏女郎。 世人皆称西湖好，哪知东湖更风光？ 游东湖补作——（与冯老师共作） 曾經西湖赏碧荷，谁知惊艳引悲鸣。 如今東湖观紅梅，遗憾期盼竟随风。 東湖西湖皆胜景，才子佳人断柔情。 世間真愛不关物，高山流水知难逢。
A LETTER TO DREAM
BY 夏菀泽 回忆你的时候让我孤独， 梦着你的时候让我向上。 等着吧， 别飞了。 当我推开了你的门， 你就走不了了。
