Poetry

We are so grateful to all of our partner-poets for sharing their work with us—please enjoy their beautiful words in our Featured Poetry catalogue.

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“The floor is night vision green / and the walls are green / and the greeness spans all we can see.”

“Their whiskers intersect / like neighborly clotheslines / One lifetime / greeting the next”

“allow myself an ounce of temptation, / run finger over ragged cuticle and think of my tongue running / along her nail bed”

“places the raw chunks / in my stained open-sore mouth, / teaches me to acquire a taste for pain.”

“And we’re dressed to the nines, in our cleanest / boots, the dust scrubbed from our tanks / until they gleam.”

“Here are gates with welcoming arms, drapes, gardens // that are all swings and slides.”

“in the tree are three buds / one will flower into a poem / eat the other two”

“But I know you’re listening, / From the pale blue waves on the monitor / That I ride.”

Two poems by Karla Yaritza Maravilla Zaragoza.
“it began with silk / devils bleaching brown kernels and selling bottled ice / tea”