Category: poetry

TWO POEMS – Kali Richmond

the diver submerged for so long
we presume her dead
shark food
scattershot of matter sinking deeper than cameras

ONE POEM – Gerry Stewart

Spread out before you,
whipped and bright coloured,
dripping with sauces,
a world of unimagined flavours,
untranslatable.

ONE POEM – Ryan Clark

Below the wall the soil
leeches contaminants
from an artificial hill rising
out of the field like a wart.

ONE POEM – Barnaby Smith

the small hours are all about compost—
wanderlust of priceless larvae
& transcendent effect of unremarkable habits

ONE POEM – Athena Ramos

Around December, our grove
of banana plants grew heavy, saba begging:
to be picked, coated in brown sugar, wrapped
in lumpia wrapper, and fried in sugary oil.

ONE POEM – Kate J Wilson

you said it’s tradition in Spain that as the clock
strikes twelve we must scoff a grape a chime
one at a time, but quickly as any left over become
unsalvageable, each one a rotten, failing month.

ONE POEM – Angeliki Ampelogianni

our language, a softness taken root
a teaspoon of rain over us
as we greet this new life

ONE POEM – Rose Foran

I saw them. In the mind’s eye.
A vision once obscured, then clarified.

ONE POEM – Jhilam Chattaraj

Cubed potatoes, sliced onions—their oil bath
followed by a tender sauna.

ONE POEM – Imogen Osborne

We return to find
the magnolia still
bruising itself into blossom.

ONE POEM – Bradley David

Then to discover we both go
first for that old chipped blue soup bowl

Is that love?

ONE POEM – Denisa Vítová

I spilled pinot noir on the bed sheet
and said I was a virgin.