I heard something other than
the chattering of birds in the trees,
something like the hint of music
Kablooey is the Sound You'll Hear by Debra Marquart
then plaster falling and the billow of gypsum
after your sister blows a hole in the ceiling
of your brother’s bedroom with the shotgun
he left loaded and resting on his dresser.
Flower Gate and Sea of Gallilee By Kazim Ali
My disobedient body pierces the I
Music drifting landward hand in hand
Two Poems by Charlie Clark
The cafés have a kind
of tea that is just
the temperature and taste
of air breathed in summer
Two Poems by Gary Jackson
Men smoke on Hagwon-ga, eyeing
the dark borders of my body.
Two Poems by Shelley Puhak
I’ve seen and Ginny, darling, I can no longer breathe. I got off
the interstate, cut through an industrial park, throbbing.
Disturbance, Seaside, and Storm: Poems By Dorianne Laux
What were their names?
The ones who left us
willingly, stepped away
from our phone calls
Max Roach & You Are the Carpet, and I Am the Drapes by D.A. Powell & Ryan Courtwright
We turn and ferret,
vengeful and assaulting.
Dear Lady of Perpetual Something by Nick Flynn
Behind my eyes a lake of fire
Behind your head a birdless sky