Cathryn Hankla: If I am Wrong

Cathryn Hankla: If I am Wrong

  If I am Wrong by Cathryn Hankla   You don’t want this poem. If I am wrong then stop writing the other poem in your head as you read. I heard one on the radio. Terrible. Couldn’t wait for it to be done, but in my head as it droned on, a more perfect poem....
Proto-Post-Memento Mori

Proto-Post-Memento Mori

  Proto-Post-Memento Mori by Stephen Massimilla Sparrows brawling in the eaves… Like those of dreaming poets, filmy membranes of eyes and bellies (of two fetal carcasses that the parents in their spat must have kicked down to my doorstep) were rolling....
Damage, by Helen Wickes

Damage, by Helen Wickes

  Damage by Helen Wickes Damage, today I’m obsessed with damage. The cored-out heart of the rose, not the bud or the bloom, but root to flower— whatever’s maimed, blemished, blistered, harmed, this skin the talon, the thorn has hooked— morning’s minion, ha— and...