from SEASONAL When the full sun is on me this way I itch and am satisfied I take it in like a thirsty man drinking from his garden hose I […]

Geologic When I don’t have a body anymore. When I’m ash and fragmented bone. I think about the early people, trapped between one geological era and another, unfathomable. Their dust […]

ISAAC —after Czeslaw Milosz’s poem Should Should Not A father should not lay his son upon an altar, should not listen to all he is told. He should not wander […]

CATHERINE GRAHAM FEATURES LOUIS MACNEICE Snow The room was suddenly rich and the great bay-window was Spawning snow and pink roses against it Soundlessly collateral and incompatible: World is suddener […]

Back to the Quarry This surface for long-legged spiders once absolved teen skin. Plunge into the limestone museum. Mingle with rusty machinery sunken by a triggered spring. Let sunfish nibble […]

In this trembling moment, with light armor under several flags rolling across northern Syria, with civilians beaten to death in the streets of occupied Palestine, with fires roaring across the […]

from Sabbath Poems 2007, V Those who use the world assuming their knowledge is sufficient destroy the world. The forest is mangled for the sale of a few sticks, or […]

 KATE CAYLEY FEATURES WENDELL BERRY AND PHILIP LARKIN The Contrariness of the Mad Farmer I am done with apologies. If contrariness is my inheritance and destiny, so be it. If […]

  Attention And if repetition could itself be a form of attention, folding along the crease until the crease finds itself hollowing out the groove, as in marriage, studying the […]

Guest Blog Post by Christopher Locke, June 22nd, 2023 Passengers The world will burst like an intestine in the sun, the dark turn to granite and the granite to a […]