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ArticleFelix Culpa-bility: Robert Frost’s “Nothing Gold Can Stay”By Tyler MaloneFor a poem about the brevity of every state of being, the single octave perfectly enacts its themes through its form.
Article“A Bird in Bishopswood” by John TickhillBy Eric WeiskottA melancholy medieval rent collector’s sorrows, scribbled on the back of a legal document
PoemIn my next life let me be a tomatoBy Natasha Raolusting and unafraid. In this bipedal incarnation I have always been scared of my own ripening, mother...
PoemBlack EarthBy Osip MandelstamToo black, too much indulged, living in clover, all little withers, all air, all charity, all crumbling...
PoemThe Flowering MemoriesBy Jesús Papoleto MeléndezIf some nice person Were to be walking by the front of my house and would pick a flower from the breasts...
Poemp1The Pardoning HourBy Khaty Xiong Here at my parents’ farm trumpeting bees scoring in the ears of all flowerkind chilies and kabocha ...
Poemp1Rogue CornBy Nikki WallschlaegerMy fav event as harvest season approaches is the rough seed that escaped the plots. If there’s a cornfield...
Poemp1Lockdown GardenBy Arvind Krishna Mehrotra1 Close to each other, socially undistanced, the mulberry leaves, uniformly green, shall turn brown ...
Poemp1The ArtichokeBy James McMichaelThe Artichoke She bore only the heart, Worked at the stem with her Fingers, pulling it to her, And into her, like...
Poemp1“The Complicated Sex Life of Primula ...By Marion McCreadyA Mardi Gras of primroses line my driveway. Pin-eyed, thrum-eyed, natural selection in action; the carnival...
Poemp1Gazetteer of the Backyard (In Which Pedanius Dioscorides Takes Stock)By Sylvia Legris part 1. uprooted the early sky 1 Luminous flowers and luminous insects. Fire lilies and fireflies. ...
PoemQuiescenceBy Alyse KnorrBetween us bobs the baby, solemn in her infant wet suit. The pool is the only place where screaming ...
Poemp1The Wire Fence Was Bent Where a Deer Jumped OverBy Carolyn GuinzioNeighbor, your mower cast dust over the edge where the field meets the field, toy-sized ring- necked...
Poemp1TalismanBy Susan StewartWho are you? Where are you hiding? Were you thrown, tumbling through space, aleatory, radiant, only ...
PoemBEDS: N 42° 44’ 33” / E 84° 29’ 47”By Divya VictorWe are on our knees. We are saying that the tulips have had it hard this week. We are saying something...
Poemp1Tree Elegy Across the Biosphere in Memory of W.S. MerwinBy John KinsellaPollination against the seed to grow canopy and mark place in shades of green—dry here to reflect in...
Poemp1The DefinitionsBy Fanny HoweMonostich: a long sentence Sternum: a little chest Heart: upside down Location of the unconscious: Empty...
Poemp1The Garden Body: A FlorilegiumBy Sylvia Legris1 A pepper of bees opens the pupils. An ensemble of aromatics Chorus aphrodisia, mariner’s root, bright sky and...
PoemThe LiliesBy Karenne WoodWhen I learned I might have cancer, I bought fifteen white lilies. Easter was gone: the trumpets were...