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Two Poems
Transnational marriage A tongue from a developed country Fallen into a developing mouth It discovers, the sanitation there’s a bit problematic The dentists are very irresponsible A cotton-ball from many years ago Still exuding residual warmth in some cranny It sheepishly wishes to make an exit But is clamped onto by the tips of incomplete…
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SPRING: A Poem
Listen to the author read this poem: [audio: issue3/surani.mp3] (i) You visit each day in a different dress, a clear umbrella for the rain. Coffees. And one day this week, with a daisy whose stem you sawed with a kitchen knife (ii) Only the magnolias have squandered their colour. Their shells convalesce over the…
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Toronto, January 2012: a Poem
For JP Here is a curbed and censored winter— its skies are blank as paper. So instead we read the sidewalks sanded bone-white by a wind made fast and loose on northern highways. They draw chalk lines over crabgrass relapsed since November. “Never mind,” they say, “This is no bardsung city of love, just the…
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Poem: Sunday Afternoon Croquet
Hear this poem read by its author, Nyla Matuk: [audio:issuetwo/nyla.mp3] Sunday Afternoon Croquet Trinity Bellwoods Park I feel like a mad Roman emperor with a history of failures at miniature golf. I’ll play at being truly imperious, a Pimm’s-sipping sundowner in a striped sweater with the entitlement to be that individual, who can dismiss Torremolinos…
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Poem: Blessed Cotillion
That grocery store he went to for a can-a-corn and maybe bread flashed right into a blessed cotillion and mister m turned to a produce boy just about fifteen years surprised (talking like a distant cousin) turned and said “excuse my frankness, but I have been removed.” Dropping that can from three of his weary…
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From the Windows the Alley
A poem by Damian Rogers, author of Paper Radio. Illustrated by Danny Zabbal.
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Wake Up
A poem by Icelandic MP Birgitta Jónsdóttir. Illustrated by Danny Zabbal.