Writings / Poetry: Luca Xifona
Facets
Once Love surfaces, two faces form one
Foundation, surfing upon each other,
And two-backed Sex sutures two-fold Beauty ,
While struggling tongues, twinning, chat and back-chat.
Perfumed phantasm of fluttering voice,
In our jiggling,...
Writings / Poetry: Flower Rae Shearer
Said the Butterfly to the Flower
I've been standing out here all winter waiting to see your face.
My toes have become brittle and my blue lips reminisce
of kisses. I know You cannot melt this snow,
perhaps I should have a talk with Mr. Sun
but I...
Writings / Poetry: Chad M Norman
A Season at Bishopsgate, 1815
(Mary standing on a boulder;
a small sealed box between her feet)
One brief and tranquil summer
I was led to pardon the timing of Fate
as shade went away from the shadow
bringing the hot spotted rooms of Bishopsgate
where...
Writings / Poetry: Wale Owoade
A Prologue
(Written after Gachugau’s ‘Promenade’)
Certain thoughts are brutal to
my own fears
I am a traveller at night, I write
the night with every face I met
In a sense, I am either my poems
or the man talking in my poems.
To A Fat...
Writings / Poetry: Karen Shenfeld
Companion Poem
(for L. C.)
He floats you supine on the sea. Your body
a small island, strangely
human. With compass and quadrant,
he comes to know you,
charting the elongated coastlines
of your torso and limbs,
your fingers’ intimate i...
Writings / Poetry: John Slater
Hatched
When they cut the wen
off your forehead
we cracked birds’ egg
then lobotomy jokes
over the loops of blue
thread stitched into a
gruesome purple scar.
On the car-ride home
we stopped for
bowls of cappuccino.
In a snug niche b...