Stav Poleg
in the beginning there was a word firing light: And if I say ‘A rose
is red in the dark too’, you virtually see this red, a non-story running
on loop in the dark, the start in that heart I call camera.
from the book
The City /
Carcanet Press
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- August 18, 2022
Lucien Darjeun Meadows
And fell, wrist-deep, into the body of a deer,
Just a fawn, really, with no eyes. His mouth was open,
His tongue black, swollen, vibrating with flies.
- August 17, 2022
Lynn Melnick
From the time I was small I was told
we're unsafe, told when they come back for us,
when the Nazis come, back for us
- August 16, 2022
Pere Gimferrer (translated from the Spanish by Adrian Nathan West)
The sea has its mechanics as love has its symbols.
With what racket the red curtain rises
or in this proscenium above an empty stage
a rumor of statues resounds, iris fronds, cutlasses,
doves that descend and softly alight.
- August 15, 2022
Reginald Dwayne Betts
someone wailed & the boy’s mother yells:
This ain’t justice. You can’t throw my son
into that fucking ocean. She meant jail.
& we was powerless to stop it.
& too damn tired to be beautiful.
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