Tag: poetry

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.

ONE POEM – Lucy Holme

Unlike a jellyfish, she has a brain but doubts her instinct for survival.
swoop siren, dive under.

ONE POEM – David Linklater

The train leans through
the Highland line, Inverness
to Fearn, wheat either side.
This carriage bows for you.

TWO POEMS – Al McClimens

‘She named the major constellations
while I gawked at them and reached out to touch.’

COMFORT FOODS // TWO POEMS – Daniele Nunziata

I’ve tried planting potatoes since you left,
but they never grow the way they did for you.