Issue 125

Ange Mlinko

‘I think of this when raising my eyes / to a filigreed cross in a sanctuary‘’

Issue 130

Karthika Naïr

‘Shyama, Sister, why / the need for dazed allegiance / to men?’

Soledad Marambio

‘They told her a thrush came into the house / and fell asleep by the TV.’

Dorothea Lasky

‘In this life // There is always time // To make a comeback’

Derek Mahon

‘a voice, not quite a voice, in the sea distance / listening to its own thin cetaceous whistle’

Silvina Ocampo

‘Oh, nothing, nothing is mine. / I am like the reflections of a gloomy lake / or the echo of voices at the bottom of a blue / well when it has rained.’

Issue 143

Nathaniel Mackey

Hoa Nguyen

‘ “I got lost in my life” / which may or may not be / misheard.’

David Masello

‘On the drive down the Taconic, / you sleep, your head sinks then snaps / up when it reaches some reflex angle.’

John Kinsella

‘Tryptamine skies and the forehand backhand falter / in earth’s revolutions’

Amit Majmudar

‘Never laid a snare for nothin. / Never caught a bullfrog. Broke / my slingshot wishbone, wishin. / Never had a smoke.’ New poetry from Amit Majmudar.

John Kinsella

‘What locked-away / state of unawareness, other life form, / brings desire to combust / out of rock exposed to flame’

Issue 126

Laura Kasischke

‘But here we are again, you and I, the / two of us, tangled / up and biological.’

Sharon Olds

‘When I build a fire, I feel purposeful.’