Requiem for an Ocean Burial
“Your life amounted to saving cent / seven as you lost yours. Bare ruined choirs / sing to you now in your blistering senescence.”
Poetry
We are so grateful to all of our partner-poets for sharing their work with us—please enjoy their beautiful words in our Featured Poetry catalogue.
Husband is The Loveliest Word
“From your fingers, / the salt was a blessing. I had to take / my shirt off.”
The Bird Born Out of Weather
By Al Maginnes
“And though he knows / five languages and a thousand names for God, he walks // to the edge of the settlement, listening again for the silver bird”
Extinction
“In your arms I open / like a wound, // slacken into / chemical grace.”
A Meaningful Poem
“My partner has left robust exercise / I lend my hand to tend this poem / What makes a poem meaningful”
Mantra to protect all children
“this is a mantra to protect tiny breathing holes / stopped by the spittle and mucus of a kiss, / for birdcage ribs of meerschaum against the press / and squeeze of bones”
No Brackets on my Tongue
“Why you (wan’) me speak / like your Queen when I / have my own monarchy?”
Daybreak Through the Cottage Window
“And so it begins: this greige gleam and economy, / this singular, smooth, silent, sweep. // A pearled page turning in a tome of darkness.”
Ghazal of the Flesh
“God, or a cell clot rooting in her walls: so I became this flesh.”