Poetry

Who is There / You Inform Our Regret / I Am in Your Field

Who is There Who is There

You Inform Our Regret

I Am In Your Field

Evan Williams is a Chicago-based poet interested in the collision of Surrealism, masculinity, and the natural world. Their work appears in DIAGRAM, Pleiades,

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Glass Delusion

51, Poetry by Heather Gluck

But the king grew increasingly erratic
swaddled in blankets, demanding that iron rods
be sewn into his clothing, so that when his glass
body bumped a wall, it would not shatter. He held
still for hours, and would not let …

Ode to the loghmeh

50, Poetry by Mehrnoosh Torbatnejad

Not quite a morsel or a nugget,
not a hint or a nibble or slice or shred,
not a scrap or a snack or a grain or a crumb,
not even a hunk or a chunk or a taste or …

Testing a Pattern / Replicas / Swim, Swam, Swum

50, Poetry by Jenny Sadre-Orafai

Testing a Pattern

I’ve watched someone who needed air
pitch a loose fist through her own window.
It was the second time I watched her die.

My mouth is a window open.

I hang heavy toile curtains—a scene
of a …

The Blue Sky

50, Poetry by Leila Seyedzadeh

The sky is not blue in all places

There are mountains, there are trees

There are no mountains, there are trees

Yet the sky here is higher

The shadows follow me

The outlines around the objects

My imagination of the …

Resentful and Ready

49, Poetry by Adele Williams

I find myself with a bit in my mouth from time
to time. That means that I am bearing all the weight.

That means that I am bridled and tamed. I am
certainly carrying a man— I may or …

After an Argument with my Mother

49, Poetry by Lilith Acadia

A horse
Leans into the coyote’s attack,
Presses against teeth,
Submits to claws, to
Defer the pain
of Torn flesh, of
Severance.

You, a horse,
Leave your last happiness,
Fly across the Atlantic to the father who
Pounded worthlessness …

the children

49, Poetry by Mercedes Lawry

wide hemisphere of roiling and din
flung mud as a tank rolls by
soon blood will river the road
the emptying of soul in order to
kill, obey orders, kill
who we are in the shadows
across the border, arms …