ars poetica of partridges & palestine
“Some might say I’m reaching, but that’s what metaphors do. / But inside them, there’s always a feather of truth.”
“Some might say I’m reaching, but that’s what metaphors do. / But inside them, there’s always a feather of truth.”
“In her halo of blood, / who knows whether she had time to beg?”
By Starr Davis
“I CERTIFY / I built a life on the run from the broken law of my body”
By Dorsey Craft
“This is a way / of forgiving. This is a way of killing the moon.”
By Mary Byrnes
“What if / you try to imagine this–a sky mottled with birds, a gray-winged static eclipse”
“What is the sound of a throat when it sings? / What is the wound of a throat when it singes?”