Tag: one poem

ONE POEM – Aimee Nicole

How many fried eggs do I have to eat to heal these broken bones?

ONE POEM – Miriam Gauntlett

last night i carved open
a tree in the yard and
at the centre of the
trunk was a small
knife

ONE POEM — Danae Younge

The trees are prettier this time of year, limp— 
gowned in sweet milk stuck to our tongues. 

ONE POEM – Jhilam Chattaraj

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

ONE POEM – Niamh Gallagher

This rockmelon is bloated with guilt
Sweet, near-rancid, on the knife’s edge of festering
Press down and it will oblige

ONE POEM – A. Martine

Brown girl: you don’t get a plot twist. Your story’s been penned
with strokes as hollow as they are spiteful

ONE POEM – Michael Akuchie

i am a city mad with fear

with sunshine eating up bodies in the open air