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Melancholy & Despair

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  • Poem
    By Dorothy Parker
    I think that I shall never know
    Why I am thus, and I am so.
    Around me, other girls inspire
    In men the rush…
  • Poem
    By Afrizal Malna
    Translated By Daniel Owen
    WORKSHOP 5: MY CAPTIVE

    its voice’s echo comes back to make a sound wall
    of its voice
    standing in a circle
    in front of a globe full of time traps
    fingers that clutch a rat
  • Poem
    By Afrizal Malna
    WORKSHOP 5: TAWANAN AKU

    gema suaranya kembali lagi membuat dinding bunyi
    dari suaranya
    berdiri melingkar
    di depan bulatan penuh perangkap waktu
    jari-jari yang menggenggam tikus
  • Poem
    By Caroline Harper New
    A man by the name of Skinner becomes famous
    for keeping caged
            pigeons, whom his clock feeds or starves
            at random. Their tiny twitching heads exaggerate until...
  • Poem
    By Thomas Warton the younger
    Beneath yon ruin'd abbey's moss-grown pilesOft let me sit, at twilight hour of eve,Where thro' some …
  • Poem
    By Adrian Matejka
    because of want & tumble?
    Because of word crumbles in the kitchen’s halogen?
    No. Separate bedrooms for…
  • Poem
    By Nick Flynn
    Saint Augustine preached humility &
    the need to simply be on the ground.
    Do you wish to rise? he asked…
  • Poem
    By Anastasia Taylor-Lind
    It’s 9/11 the first time you stay.
    In the morning you bring Taliban poems back to bed.
    I drink cardamom…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineLay It Bare

    By Anders Carlson-Wee
    I know you’re hungry for it.
    More money. More news. Desperate

    for any laurel that parades you
    as happier…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineFarmers’ Market

    By Molly Fisk
    Yesterday I was so lonely
    I could barely walk,
    my friend being mobbed
    by her grandchildren
    as we made…
  • Poem
    By Don Domanski
    *
    clouds creak in the sky
    herons creak in the sky. 
    *
    the dark approaches itself
    from all sides once again…
  • Poem
    By Cameron Awkward-Rich
    I wake up & it breaks my heart. I draw the blinds & the thrill of rain breaks my heart. I go outside…
  • Poem
    By William Hughes Mearns
    Yesterday, upon the stair,
    I met a man who wasn't there
    He wasn't there again today
    I wish, I wish he'd…
  • Poem
    By Tilsa Otta
    Translated By Farid Matuk
    I saw a herd of toads in the gully of my reflection
    Staring at each other arguing over insects 
    It wasn…
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