Poetry

A woman cries on the A

You want to hold her. You want her to disappear. This is how you feel…

Carolyn Saxby
From The Olga Poems

Olga-Helga, I value your stuff. With my odalisque curves, my delirious cockatiel heart Be aware:…

My Great Grandmother in the Kitchen

  She watches me, her transparent face reflecting in panes of glass, echoing in gas…

Upon Viewing my Daughter Drowning as a [Continuous Loop]

the   water  is   deafness pulling         a      …

The choices we make

She said to me the word is sacred; in the beginning, there was el verbo.…

Four Poems

  Water My Heart with a Jonquil Translated by Krystelle Bamford So you think it’s…

poet: rigor mortis, zombies, & dehumanization

  after Night of the Living Dead (1968), 1:34:35, directed by George A. Romero and…

A Talent for Packing

  We grab the bags, half filled, again. Let the shame we own shade us…

Medea to Susan Smith, 1995

  It would have been better if we both had guns / if it had…