The Orchard Thieves
By Jai Bashir
“In the rain, we circle around like dogs / who can’t find sleep, we carve the dark // out of plums, purple as an uncurled thumb”
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.
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 Admire: Pride
By Kim Harvey
June, we celebrate diversity & solidarity, the freedom to be who we are & love who we love. Palette’s Pride Month PWA features an exciting selection of work by queer-identified poets…
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”
Poetry We Admire: Motherhood
The declared cruelest month, National Poetry Month, has arrived. Here are four new poems we admire hitting magazines that speak to the vastness of cruelty, featuring work from Golden in The Offing, Mary Morris in Thrush Poetry Journal, Hieu Minh Nguyen in Poetry, and Dilruba Ahmed in NER.