A Prayer from the Queer Studies Section of the Bookstore ~ Tumblr user dominusdeus With thanks to dominusdeus for her kind permission to share this poem. At the bookstore That I have been to three times so far, I am standing in the religion section Two aisles, one of eastern philosophy and One of western […]
The Well at Mylor ~ Penelope Shuttle At Mylor the water of the well bears the armour of the light, it hides and escapes and stays still under its hood of rock amid a galore of graves and green leaves, spring of fresh water beside the sea, a find, a treasure, a pedigree, no idyll […]
Forty-One ~ Cassandra Warren You disappoint him. He says this isn’t true but you know him now. You finally sleep well next to his shape and he often wanders into your day and night dreams. He isn’t demanding and you are always sorry. Sorry that you can barely read in front of him, sing in […]
Wisps of October ~ Elizabeth Alford The night we made s’mores at the dining room table— toasting marshmallows on the ends of pretzel sticks over unscented tea candles, watching bubbling balls of fire gradually transform into charred, crispy, gooey ghosts of their former selves which we ate smooshed between graham crackers and half each of […]
Madrid ~ Pai Wei Translated from Chinese by Kenneth Rexroth and Chung Ling From “The Penguin Book of Women Poets”: Pai Wei, ‘white fern’, is the pseudonym of Huang Su-ju, who was born in Hunan and as a young girl ran away to avoid an arranged marriage. In the twenties she went to Japan to study […]
