Writings / Poetry: Luca Xifona
Sermonic
Beauty ignores dust, plus everything bare
Or bitter. What is dressed in dust is dead—
As is flesh that's pithiatic. Beauty
Favours succulence, not desert, not ice.
(Hell is coffins—beings gone to scraps, scrapings
Of dirt. The...
Writings / Poetry: Gillian Sze
Ode to Absence
The good colours of autumn
startle and glister.
A buzzing yellow.
The best colours are scant in the late month,
lasting one brief hour
and then is dulled by noon’s shadow.
There is obedience for shadows:
where cars a...
Writings / Poetry: Amatoritsero Ede
Globetrotter
(From Globetrotter & Hitler’s Children – New York: Akashic Books, 2009)
l
and let green laughter tree
between neighbouring jowls
justled together
on mosaic streets
thick thin
full dimpled...
