A Triple Review of: Valerie Volk’s Marking Time: A Chronicle of Cancer Esther Ottoway’s Intimate, Low-Voiced Delicate Things Eunice Andrada’s Take Care Cancer. Divorce. Rape culture. What poetry could there be in such difficult things? Many fine poems, some extraordinary,…
Autographs (1)In Zou Mat Je
Click on the image above, or here, to go through to Zou Mat Je online zine. There are four autographs here (with translations and poetic responses).
Catching the L-WordsAn Epithalamium
Catching the L-Words (an epithalamium) Who can explain connection? The yes and the no of it: one thread chosen from a multitude of tangling possibilities, one thought leaping between two minds, one football kicked in the air, a heart falling,…
If I Want to Keep Beauty
If I Want to Keep Beauty Standing in front of the mirror, combing my daughter’s hair— glossy dark chestnut softness, the silver comb. Watching my son run forward into the pack, to take the mark— the arc of the football,…
Friend(for C)
Friend Published in What We Carry: Poetry on childbearing Featuring diverse voices and perspectives on experiences of infertility, conception, termination, loss, pregnancy, birth and the early postpartum period, this collection illuminates the endlessly different ways the potential to carry life…
Home
One Day I Will Find It | Without Warning | A Place to Return to Home One Day I Will Find It I’ll follow the smell of food: fried ikan bilis, roast lamb, mangoes; or the sound of water touching…