Poetry

Jazz

By Peter Taylor
when is it day when / is it day when / is it day / when / is it / day /   / ADAMS, Richard, 57, male; sev catatonic st /...

Your Parka Trimmed in Fur

By Julie Cameron Gray
We are surrounded by milky coffee / steaming out of cups on white saucers. / A bit of bread, blackberry jam. / Gloves float by the café window, carried / off by...

Crossing the High Level Bridge

By Suzannah Showler
A seagull jumps off into a wind that cracks it open over the nestled knot / of some inner-bird hinge that moves like the ugly joisting of a jaw, /   /...

Reply to a Footnote

By Robin Durnford
 __ / 1 Obfuscating , you say, to devils like me /                 who reads you? /   / His accent unholy as vampires / contaminating your virginal Holy Words /  ...

… and Trembling

By Cassidy McFadzean
After Kierkegaard /   / He draws the blood out of my limbs / like handkerchiefs pulled from a sleeve. / He presses the tint out of my skin. / I watch...

Blood is Blood

By Endre Farkas and Carolyn Marie Souaid
JEW   ARAB   Bullets.       Hail. This brutal rain,   This brutal rain, a prologue.   a prologue.         We are   We are the Chosen       the desert dwellers of...

Harvest

By Jenna Butler
what turns up is not / always what we expect /   / among the new potatoes / cranberry glass    sharded / porcelain     the banded trunks / rattling like...

Alberta, 1983

By Jenna Butler
she is still young enough / to remember the bougainvillea / on the eaves      old men / shuffling in the breezeway /    how paan dyes the teeth /    red &...

Bread

By Michelle Elrick
I grind my grandmother’s bones to a powder / add a little water from the blue glacier / spit and stir, knead in dry leaves / the yellow fat from new cream...