Mars(eillaise)
I died for Easter day and resurrected just / Like him for a week at the hospital I was high on morphine / And the nurses all laughed… More
Two Poems by Abdellatif Laâbi
she would pull her headscarf off / and strike the floor seven times / cursing the heavens and the Tyrant / I was in the cave / where convicts… More
from Weirde Sister
I have a ring that throws up when a cat dies / I have a ring where instead of a jewel it has one of God’s baby teeth /… More
from The Somnambulist
I touch the swollen skin / left of my right eye I ask Is this grace // is it violence is it black inside like inside / a black… More
from Vincent
I don't know if it was I / or the wind that lifted her forelocks but / what a mess her face was what a / traveling elsewhere … More
The Rain Will Not Prepare You
Information doesn’t need to be true / to grow itself in your body like a peach / & be given as food to whoever, much later / What the… More
Two Poems by Amber Atiya
u daughter of geechee gods / u femme no longer loving / the butch on top of her, u queer / my nickel plated heaven: / boys with breasts… More
Quelque part dans le monde
Somewhere in the world / There will always be a candle to light / A fire to put out / A flood to stem / A drought to fight… More
A Prayer for Workers
Bless the woman, man, & child / who honor Earth by opening shine / in the soil—the splayed hour More