Poetry
Spotlight on…
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Firewood
by Nazaret Ranea
“When your feet, your hands / your face shrink from the cold / your grandfather will come from the garden”
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Scriblerus
by Robert McCarthy
"O our wee broken / hearts, our mimical, inimical / cardiac cases, unresolved / by the faults in our stars…”
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I know you
by Ewen Glass
“like the pores on the back / of my hand. / It’s alarming how suddenly / loneliness comes on.”
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Homewreckers
by 蒢楀栟 Ee Bing Tsu
“You made me dinner and burnt the oven / So I broke a plate while washing up to make things even…”
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An unbelieving hand – Lakes of Killarney
by Eóin Flannery
“the congregation / now fled and the end of time / settled like wet ash on the ground / beneath your feet.”
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Mature Fruit Trees
by Shane Murphy
“From the winding road, the true / view of the land heads uphill / at a steep angle, where grafted / apple trees stipple the soil”
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Goodbye
by Gary Leising
“I think of you, / with your filth-foul mouth / like an anglerfish, ugly nightmare beast / with a glowing lure before toothsome maw.”
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some things are only warm in layers
by Nathaniel Calhoun
“we match our breath to empathize / and are hyperventilated—”
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From a Line to a Menu
by Dan Rafael
“having a pizza delivered one slice at a time / always by bicycle, usually in the rain.”
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Suburbia
by Robert Beveridge
“Yodeled ululations / of drunkhappy teenagers / ring off the pavement”
Firewood
by Nazaret Ranea
“When your feet, your hands / your face shrink from the cold / your grandfather will come from the garden”
To Believe in Making Friends with Birds
by Matt Cooper
“I knit his poem a shawl / Adorned with all the symbols / Of the ghost dance and the chiefs / From waist to gullet. “
Six Poems
by Tim Frank
“When the coughing stops / Then I take another drag.”
Three Poems
by Robert McCarthy
"O our wee broken / hearts, our mimical, inimical / cardiac cases, unresolved / by the faults in our stars…”
Five Poems
by Karen Lozinski
“I can fathom a permanent corporeal home / and why I need to rustle and rise / to bring my butt to the grocery store.”
Four Poems
by Nathaniel Calhoun
“we match our breath to empathize / and are hyperventilated—”
Things I Didn't Notice I'd Lost (Until It Was Too Late)
by Sarah Jane Justice
“a button fallen from a threadbare string / punished by gravity / for a lack of function…”
Five Poems
by Changming Yuan
“The bird strives to catch / The swirl, but…”
Five Poems
by William Doreski
“Eclipse light blurs our shadows / and rinses the blue from the sky.”
Three Poems
by Robert Beveridge
“Yodeled ululations / of drunkhappy teenagers / ring off the pavement”
Featured Poetry from The Argyle…
“Homewrekers”
by 蒢楀栟 Ee Bing Tsu
“You made me dinner and burnt the oven / So I broke a plate while washing up to make things even…”