Tag: literature

ONE POEM – Holly Conant

Last night they were alive again, flying through the air at break-bone speed, but they didn’t break.

COMFORT FOODS // Tiffin — Serena Alagappan

Tiffin clangs like bells,
collapses as it climbs,
tiffin holds okra, paneer,
sambar, and lemon rice.

ONE POEM — Jonah Corren

The goats have come down
from the hills today.

ONE POEM – Jenny Wong

The fish 
fillets are thawing 
for their pan-fried debut.

ONE POEM – Sally Michaelson

giddy with the scent
we pipette the peppermint 
into the mixture

ONE POEM — Finola Scott

breathe and /hold
lungs and belly
moon balloon full

Midnight Games – Madeehah Reza

It’s not that she wasn’t happy for her sister, far from it. Nadia only wished she could hold on to her for a little longer.

COMFORT FOODS // ONE POEM – Lindy Biller

and what does it mean
that her blood still sings
through the Old Quarter
of my veins?

ONE POEM – Sidrah Zubair

will you give me gentle hand grips and the space I need
to feel sorry for myself?

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 – Cai Draper

i was scared to make this poem /
treat them right / they never
came close to meeting in life