Poetry

Prayer For My NDN Bb Girls

By Lindsay Nixon
Sing a song for the Indigibabes who make acrylic shine like diamonds, and $10 mucklucks that they lifted (see also: liberated and repatriated) from Ardene’s look so good, they might as well...

As You Wish

By Shirley Camia
you are still in the philippines /   / by a dock inhaling sea salt / enjoying the dance of the palms /   / your ancestral home /   / of...

Three poems about being transparent

By Ivan de Monbrison
Personne ne pleure / pourtant la nuit est cousue par tous les côtés / au bord du vide / la statue penche dangereusement / et pourrait à tout moment tomber / les...

House of Targ

By Ben Ladouceur
I wash my wrist with water lest / my blue stamp of approval be the death / of my bed’s high thread-count spread. /   / I wash the south out of...

Three Ontological Studies: Feet

By Jan Zwicky
Which is worse, the body / or the mind? Pressing, always straining / to be somewhere else: / the headlong weight of them. / But the feet /   / are kind,...

Waterfall/Semantics

By Jordan Mounteer
If it ever took a life, it is unaccounted for. / Stone tumbler. Giant’s breath. White death. / A growl ripped in a gurgle. Throat’s cavern / jerking air down dark eroded...

Dogs in the House

By Shannon Quinn
Did we bring it home with us? / Could we have stopped that strange dog from / slipping into her skin— / whimper lost at lunch / junkyard mean by dinner? /...

Map of the Kootenays, 4

By Celina Silva
here, / i don’t need a map. / i can tell my way from the curve of the street, palette of colors / along Carbonate or Stanley Street. i know the trees...
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Postcards From Palm Springs

By Katie Jordon
   i. Elvis Honeymoon Hideaway /   / Everything is pink—the sand at sunset,  / the walls, my tub and its rust, the flowers.  /   / My bed is also pink,...