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  • Poem

    poetry-magazineTrucking

    By Sasha Pearl
    I’m in Shartlesville
    Eating air-chilled wings in the sleeper cab
    I took the contract because the devil…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineStreet Food

    By Daniel Halpern
    The redolence of rose and new road.
    The attar of grass, recently cut.
    The fish-whiff of anchovy.
    The spinning…
  • Poem
    By Bashō
    Translated By Lucien Stryk
    Wake, butterfly—
    it's late, we've miles
    to go together.
  • Poem
    By Shereen Akhtar
    In our first house-let in London, she drew on the tablecloth to create
    a calligraphic feast. Our friends…
  • Poem
    By Xiao Yue Shan
    1
    listen carefully—there is land or there is water,
    and a time where
    you may mistake one for another.
    there…
  • Poem
    By Li-Young Lee
    I can hear in your voice
    you were born in one country
    and will die in another,  and where you live is where…
  • Poem
    By Martha Silano
    Is this the last time I’ll admire the guys
    in their neon-yellow slickers, guiding us
    to our parking spots…
  • Poem
    By William Butler Yeats
    I

    That is no country for old men. The young
    In one another's arms, birds in the trees,
    —Those dying generations—at their song,
    The salmon-falls, the mackerel-crowded seas,
    Fish, flesh, or fowl, commend all summer long
    Whatever is begotten, born, and dies.
    Caught in that sensual music...
  • Poem
    By Jorie Graham
    The blades like irises turning very fast to see you completely—steel-blue then red where the cut occurs…
  • Poem
    By Ada Limón
    Is it okay to begin with the obvious? I am full of stones—
                is it okay not to look out this window, but to look out another?

    A mentor once said, You can't start a poem...
  • Poem
    By CAConrad
    “this is your
    captain” Frank says from the cockpit

    “all passengers wishing to bail out
    any time during our flight

    it
    is
    too
    late

    I have shredded the parachutes to confetti
    in celebration of our arrival”
  • Poem
    By Richard Blanco
    Que será, el café of this holy, incorporated place,
    the wild steam of scorched espresso cakes rising
    like mirages from the aromatic waste, waving
    over the coffee-glossed lips of these faces
     
    assembled for a standing breakfast of nostalgia,
    of tastes that swirl with the delicacy...
  • Poem
    By Tristan Tzara
    Translated By Heather Green
    senseless here’s the man with the crystal contractions
    with the rumor of sand with a doll’s past tense
    at the hollow step in a bed of distress
    nevertheless present at the passage of spring spring Tristan Tzara wrote this poem during the summer of...
  • Poem
    By Ahmad Almallah
    the world is not as bad as our
                                           neighbors
    made it to be that day—
    we’ve seen worse days—
    and how beautiful
    they were, these days...
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