Poetry

Approaching the situation with misinformed caution

Poetry, Volume 68 Issue 2 / By

Want,desire,yearning,pining, craving,weight… waiting.The sickness,aching,longing.Whatever the word may be to describe the hot burning sensation that pools in your gut and spreads through your body like wildfire.Each torch you dropped did not snuff out, the amber still burns blue. You stuff and stuff and stuff to no surprise, you remain unsatisfied.The definition of insanity is“doing the […]

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The Bach-bowel movement: no. 2 in A minor

Poetry, Volume 68 Issue 2 / By

When melancholy strikes,and my laundry piles up,a 13-year-old bloodhoundthe size of two American footballsmaterialises between the layers of rough jeans, synthetic wools,and a couple freshly washed pairs of thongs. Here he slobbers.Profusely.Heaving in heavy distress,as if to bring to my attention the gravest offence of my existence –that he has NEVER, not ONCE,been taken on

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Oil Paintings

Poetry, Volume 68, Volume 68 Issue 1 / By

The fire sees everything as it feeds. Gold filigree peels away under the heat. Skeletal wooden beams come crashing in succession.The oil paintings hanging on the walls drip down, colours and faces crawling from the canvas onto the ground. Red and black and flesh warp into one as hungry brushstrokes flee their gilded frames.Mary on

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Orthodox Judaism and Lesbianism

Poetry, Volume 67, Volume 67 Issue 7 / By

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attends

Poetry, Volume 67, Volume 67 Issue 6 / By

memory sends rivulets in slalomdown her spine, belligerent skeins spin awayfrom fingers tangling twine instead of touch,attends or attends? move or move on tostep into the painting over a crib,rocking in the wake of loveless lossbending timber to a pestilent point;splinters hop on high into irate iris,negligence finds just desserts deserted.but a rusted spoon, she

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leg-thing

Poetry, Volume 67, Volume 67 Issue 6 / By

crisscrossing such full of probes who full of magnitude with each adheres: even before how to bend in several directions since adjusts in outerletting – the heavy as though he rode full of our fibres full of each others’ toward-the-germ-line, one after for you thereby enabled in habit and discarding his soothened like full of

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