Two Poems
By Carlina Duan
“I was creamy / with hope. red muck of stars to line my / underwear. my abdomen thick / with ghosts”
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.
The Present of Poetry
By Serrina Zou
“There is never enough bleach to taint our country clean, only enough / body politics to call ourselves a nation.”
Slipped Stitches
Someone has fake-planted geraniums in a pot down the block from me / and though they are too bright and untextured to be real, they still / sometimes fool me.
Black Madonna
Hunger is a kind of sermon; to see a lonely thing and want to make it a part of yourself.
Thoughts on Legs
By Maya Owen
“I make do, don’t / I, with my double-edged mind? / At this point, what haven’t I tried?”
Poetry (Resources) We Admire: Palestine
This July, Palette’s Poetry We Admire column seeks to pay attention to and elevate Palestinian voices, demands, and dreams of liberation in light of the ongoing occupation of Palestine.
Bathe All This in Light
“Between which silence / and which tongue will we find God? // Bathe all this in light. / One day we’ll darken into form.”
Gift
By Marie Ungar
“These days, I often wish I could scrape myself / out from the inside and exist as a thing / un-woman.”
I’m Not Saying Anything About the Schmidt Pain Scale
“his sister mentioned the mental illness that tunneled its way through the family tree, the honeycomb clusters of sisters & fathers & mothers & daughters”