The Blizzard at The Grounded Antler
The Grounded Antler was a pub at the end of Luton Airport’s third runway. A drink there set the pulses racing, which is why people came...
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The Spread
We are clustered around a series of circular tables in the St. George Catholic High School cafeteria. At every seat debaters in...
Implicated
What I didn’t tell you about
was the forgotten
long-expired bag of lettuce
all the way in the back...
the winter i was shot
i met her
dangling
on the shopping cart.
words were useless
with the wheels
thumping.
in the soda can,
all those bubbles against her...
Scoring Rubric for Poetry: Please X
UNDERSONG 5 4 3 2 1
I will give you whispers
ripe from a branch –
Il Faut Ecouter Mac Doe
We move to France in September. I miss candy corn. I miss the bugs in Mom’s vegetable garden. Sometimes I ate the roly-polies. I miss...
The Waterfall
He wanted his name cleared and he wanted everyone involved to admit that he’d been wronged. That’s what he remembered most about moving...
Two Poems
misdirects me to People’s Park
where I see a lavender lilac bush
a mother with four children
and a man whose four mile walk
gets...
kingdom of friends
no hope of getting between you & any end:
upright, no, unbending,
no, can't begin to plot the give.
what even was a friend..
No English, Swahili
I am driving down Dandridge Avenue by the Section 8 Office, next to the Family Justice Center, near all the places where I stand in line...
August, Again
Even after he saw Ross standing by the entrance to the cantina, all suited up and accompanied by a military officer, Julius kept running...
Upside-down Sonnet Ending with a Couplet by Auden
Suppose someone you adore
sees you with indifferent eyes.
Sigh, and be satisfied.
Lucky is the lover who loves more...
Accept What You Will
The delightfully mismatched, misshapen couple
had held hands and held on to hope for a decade
that is precise, from the first second of...
A Graceful Idea Broken
I heard someone say
the gunfire was distant.
As distant as what?
I asked in a fit of madness
or something resembling
a graceful idea...
An Accident
The guy from Grindr, a CrossFit instructor who kept calling me bro and looked older than he’d said he was, lived in a mostly empty condo...
The Throwing
What a summer. In the span of two months Peg’s mom dies, I get a speeding ticket, the comments on Teddy’s report card advise holding him...
Triptych
I.
He chanced upon a world of four imagined corners, oily, quartered, creased at the centre.
Animals animated and two-dimensional...
Ornella
smokes tobacco from a pipe, is a temescal guide.
You can tell the scientists to stop looking for the blackest shade of black...
Teleport
From the nightmare of the twenty-first century emerged a new technology that, though it did little to stave off the twin forces of global...
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