Ars Poetica: 13
By Shutta Crum
“in the tree are three buds / one will flower into a poem / eat the other two”
By Shutta Crum
“in the tree are three buds / one will flower into a poem / eat the other two”
By Rongfei Mu
“But I know you’re listening, / From the pale blue waves on the monitor / That I ride.”
By Karla Yaritza Maravilla Zaragoza
Two poems by Karla Yaritza Maravilla Zaragoza.
“it began with silk / devils bleaching brown kernels and selling bottled ice / tea”
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“My motorcycle’s thrum as much the music / as bees in the embattled thistledown, the wild // stonefruits erupting from mouthed cores”
“the women’s heart-shaped / faces like pale evenings cracked / with elegant longing for assignations.”
By Sarah Carey
“In my 30s, I seek // and scan. A broadcast warns / of thunderstorms on the horizon”
By Holly Zhou
“I bubbled at the mouth. / But you kept me safe, kept my glass clean. / Close.”