Greek Sentences
“When I was a child I saw / [not the ichor on your hands] / only the ichor / in you”
“When I was a child I saw / [not the ichor on your hands] / only the ichor / in you”
Goatwater is a column which explores the mystifying, joyous and liberating concept of Carnival through the New York born and raised, Caribbean-American perspective of poet and artist Tiffany Osedra Miller.
By Zack Rybak
“From where the / uncanny calls, the home which haunts me back toward my proper landscape. Desert height which void-aches, / reminder of compromise.”
By Timi Sanni
“You followed me through the needle eye of a dark, pine forest / and I emerged, as a doe–bright and spotless–on the other side.”
With Intersection, her monthly column, celebrated poet Chelsea Dingman enters a place of questions left hanging—of lyric understanding, of addiction, and womanhood, and politics, and death. This is the final essay of the series.
By Kevin Park, Channbunmorl Sou, & Mylo Lam
“8. Smash tamarind to a fine pulp (feel free to use same blunt object used to kill snake). / As your boyfriend sits there, realize you’ll probably have his children.”
By Jessica Joy Hiemstra and Paul David Esposti
“I want to land like a cormorant / when I die, be remembered / like a long black neck”
“The fountain and, / Cauldron of a life before, / and how important are the reminder, of what is broken, / you silly, silken, thing.”