We hope you have enjoyed the poetry of Alexis Kienlen, Diane Buchanan, Peter Midgley, and Pierrette Requier this week, and we hope that you will join them at today’s “Balanced Brunch” event: Edmonton “A Balanced Brunch†Event: Sunday, April 29, 1:30 PM – 3:30 PM Fort Saskatchewan Public Library, 10011-102 Street, Fort Saskatchewan, AB FREE […]
The complicated simplicity of sipping from a woman’s love… ~ Michelle Labossière Brandt This same complicated simplicity I offered my men their beaking otherwise their sipping elsewhere the acute sting of betrayal how after the days slipped sideways throat wanted to clasp closed and in my sorrow broke a flash. Hummingbirds beat their wings 820 […]
He walked. From Maseru to Teyateyaneng, he walked to his father’s trading store. Then from Teyateyaneng to Maseru, back to his mother, he walked. From Shamva to Bindura, he walked. Every Saturday, he danced ’til dawn. And on the seventh day, he walked from Bindura back to Shamva. And in the Qatara Depression (“Spiders as […]
I wonder what lies inside this scarred shell, imagine; clotted carrion, fractured fossils, brittle blood, lubricious white of bone, amber yolk. Alembic outcomes of an unknown alchemy. You echo with eons of transmutations. Once it was believed that you carry maps of whole constellations pressed into you. I run my finger across your pitted surface, […]
i’m going for the king, but you won’t let me in. you line up your soldiers, the children you will sacrifice, the ones who glide, sail in like messengers. i try to advance, but you block me, take pieces away. i advance through empty space again, wounded and weaker, but still focused on that lone […]
