poetry

EVELYN LAU
Poetry
Dull Emergency

"...vocabularies / reduced to virus, vaccine, variants— / that dull emergency of the daily count."

JAMES POLLOCK
Poetry
Flashlight

“a switch, a focus, and a temperament / suited to discovery…”

TERENCE BYRNES
Poetry
Ash

“The public air transmits / his days wirelessly / to my open window”

HENRY DOYLE
Poetry
Sunday Morning Sidewalk

“It’s God’s day off, and mine too.”

BILLEH NICKERSON
Poetry
Langley

“The pizza man ran over our pizzas!” He screamed, but no one believed him.

Gregory Betts
Poetry
Clean Up

"...skinny dipping in a sea of potato chips / swaying like kelp past cookies..."

JAMES POLLOCK
Poetry
Umbrella

Pole, stretchers, ribs, and canopy.

JAMES POLLOCK
Poetry
Sprinkler

“...it tells time / rapidly, then untells it back again”

JAMES POLLOCK
Poetry
Television

A remote control to guide the grief in front of you.

JAMES POLLOCK
Poetry
Barometer

It knows you could use a change of atmosphere.

EVELYN LAU
Poetry
N’awlins

With a closing line from Ted Hughes.

BRADLEY PETERS
Poetry
Echoes

“You name each noise: Jackie chopping/ watermelon, Deb slurping from the hose,/ that neighbour’s fat Chihuahua.”

Geoff Inverarity
Poetry
Traffic Reports in Strange Cities

Keep your radio on—otherwise you might not make it home.

Geoff Inverarity
Poetry
Looming

"Life’s a bomb on a timer."

Geoff Inverarity
Poetry
One Day

“Now that we have all the right tools for the job, we can put them away for the last time.”

BILLEH NICKERSON
Poetry
Kissing in New Zealand

See the local sites, try the local kisses.

HENRY DOYLE
Poetry
Killing me the rest of the way

"'Drink up, Joe. Hell is closed.' / laughing out the side of his mouth / Killing me the rest of the way."

JILL MANDRAKE
Poetry
Voyage to the Bottom of the Out

"My name is Bar, like the stool."

JEN BIEBER
Poetry
Little House

"My house is the smallest oldest little house on the block / neighbors tour over and look down / call the fire department."

JAMES POLLOCK
Poetry
Durable Goods

The rhythmic churn of an unbalanced drum

Poetry
Marriage Poems

"In her dream, my wife said I abandoned her in the middle of a strange city forcing her out of our car."

CARLA NAPPI
Poetry
Sappho Questions Medusa

"Desire, he said, wants what is not in reach. So reach for me and dance me out of death."

EVELYN LAU
Poetry
Burnt

There was a fire in your former home, it was on the news. You brought me here, once, in my youth when nothing impressed me.

Geoff Inverarity
Poetry
Grief

Grief’s a bastard.