Writings / Poetry: Amatoritsero Ede
Mother and Child
(for Odia Ofeimun)
I
a foetus nestles in its watery hammock
tiny thumb plugged
into dreaming mouth
sleep-suckled
gently
a curious midwife
hand
plumbs
the throbbing womb
for warmth
mother moans and heaves
expels
the s...
Writings / Poetry: Luca Xifona
Maltese Memory
The snowy boiling of Maltese froth—
The rippling rain, all night, whipping street dirt
Into sewers—sets me imagining
Water-transparent clothes, you, naked.
How I like to see you, so innocent,
In bra and panties—and then without em.
...
Writings / Poetry: Rebekha Carlsen
Inside the Diming
A shiver passed along the ridgeline,
Beside hope and possibility.
All that was longed for in fortitude –
A semblance of a dream returned.
The salted canyon wall
A statement solely for the aide of crumbled stone.
An unruly quest s...
