Sea Boys
By Wale Ayinla
“Egbo naa… / Which of the boys is a reed?”
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.
Night Windows 1928 & Silbers Pharmacy
“A perfect place for Hopper to window // shop, then move on, never to enter, never / to seek out Silber or his ghostly, gassy patrons.”
Ohio Cento & How To Preserve a Fistful of the Neighbor’s Tulips
By Maggie Smith
“Your body, it is yours to leave behind, // and afterward, the moon stops looking like a moon, / unpolished for months, tarnished as flatware.”
Lottery & Deciding When Enough is Enough
“She tells me her birds have come to visit her again today. / One pecked and chirped at the window where she sat. / It’s your brother, she says. I don’t disagree.”
Research on the Color White
“Swans made / beautiful endings / and moved / like slow ships. / What wedding dress / has ever lied?”
Yoemon and Kasane
“The folding mirror: In which a skull’s eye sockets gleam, / And you can pour blood over it.”
Poetry We Admire: Burning
At Palette Poetry, we love work that burns. Poems that burble over in anger. Poems burning up in desire and ecstasy. Language that holds us hostage with burning questions.
The Domesticated Troubadour
By Jaydn DeWald
“he’s sure the romance will return / someday in a sweep of cheatgrass cloud- / shadows drifting over his open palms but then / where will his kids be”
Cytokinesophobia
By Don Hogle
“Anything / that can, will divide, double and / eventually become a rain”