Poetry
Spotlight on…
 
      
      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 Yuan Changming
“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…”
 
                         
                       
                       
                       
                      