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An ode to plums

April 18, 2013

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From Traci Brimhall’s “The Unverifiable Resurrection of Adão da Barco,” a poem in the current issue:

First, a tourist finds a poem in the leper colony,
carved in a kapok, ants swarming sap in the cuts.
Then a fisherman uncovers instructions for a rain dance,
an usher discovers recipes for the jubilee.

A riverboat captain comes to town and leads them
to a tree in the north describing the mating habits
of the marabunta, to one in the south with an ode to plums.

[read the poem]

 

Filed Under: Poetry Tagged With: The Unverifiable Resurrection of Adão da Barco, Traci Brimhall

Self-Portrait as Superman

December 13, 2012

From Jake Adam York’s “Self-Portrait as Superman (Alternate Take),” in the current issue:

At twenty-four frames per second, sixty seconds is two hundred
feet of film you’ll never see: Christopher Reeve
ready to become mild-mannered Clark Kent—sharp

trilby and blue chalk-pinstripe suit—
once they call Action, the Who-me smile fading
to bit-lip circumspection, cover story and secret,

hand on the button-down’s placket, ready to pull
the buttons from their eyes, peel
the rough-hewn cotton from the ancient crest, the S

[read more]

Filed Under: Poetry Tagged With: Jake Adam York, Self-Portrait as Superman

Waiting for the Hurricane

December 12, 2012

From Jennifer Grotz’s “Listening,” in the current issue:

Water turns everything into a jewel
then puts a metal taste in the mouth
slowly replaced by dust. Which is why standing
in the rainy street you feel much richer than you are. Or, aware that everything will dry, much poorer.

You feel that way anyway in New York, and a little lost,
but let’s be honest, that’s what you want, to hide,
and like an owl, you’ve retreated not to high branches
but an anonymous skyrise.

[read more]

Filed Under: Poetry Tagged With: Jennifer Grotz, Listening

I Could Say I’ve Been a Shadow

December 11, 2012

From Brendan Grady’s “Moths,” in the current issue:

We know the moths circling the porch light,
the dolt among them breaking orbit,
dusty Icarus drawn to his demise.

This isn’t new, but seventeen others
stuck on the wall have turned their wings
against it, like stoics, as if the light isn’t light,

and if they move, it is only a slight flutter,
a twitch of motion, before they still again.

[read more]

Filed Under: Poetry Tagged With: Brendan Grady, Moths

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