Heaven
By Gaia Rajan
“Once, / a taxonomist wanted to know if women were engineered to perform / labor, so he exhumed teeth, sewed them into a girl.”
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.
INSIDE ME ARE ICEBERGS THAT MAKE IT HARD TO DANCE
“How’s your uterus? she asks, as if doctors foraging to unearth / my fertility is haha-worthy.”
Greek Sentences
“When I was a child I saw / [not the ichor on your hands] / only the ichor / in you”
Nevada Complex II
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.”
God
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.”
Ma’s Canh Chua Recipe: April – December 1975
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.”
Cormorant
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”
OK!
“The fountain and, / Cauldron of a life before, / and how important are the reminder, of what is broken, / you silly, silken, thing.”
Deus Vulgaris
“For a long time, I tried to peel off God / like a wet swimsuit”