i befriended a fruit fly once,
with body black, and bending knees.
knowing secrets of the universe, hence
it told me how to live in peace.
Tag: Poetry
Five Poems by Max Hamilton
o-scrape off in time n-watch th-word-raid brake
Don’t
Don’t hold my face when you say it./
Don’t look at me as if you’ll crumble if I turn away.
Interview with Christopher X. Shade
Shade talks with poetry editor Max Hamilton about confronting grief through meditation and writing.
Anti-Sweetheart Sentiment
I’ve always thought redemptions should come in the form of damp little castles.
Picture and Pen
When I want to know more about him, I read the words that shot fists into the air.
No Dog Could Hunt You Like I Could
Kiss by kiss/I build you
Poetry by Aubri McCarter
My mother wanted things.
Poetry by Sébastien Bachand
The wind pulls a crystal from my eye
Send in the Clowns
Last month, I went to a reading where there was a clown. MX gallery right off Canal Street in Chinatown, up five grueling flights of stairs. I stumbled into the dimly lit art space out […]
“Writing is also an opportunity to learn new things”
I can’t pinpoint the moment I met Lidudumalingani. Throughout my time in Cape Town I encountered him at film festivals, talks on creativity, live music events, book gatherings and around the dinner tables of mutual friends.
Poetry by Aly Tadros
I guzzled down my twenties
Poetry by Mica Le John
black hands/pure gold/interstellar bodies
Poetry by Basil Soper
would expose intoxicants under mama’s pulsing scales
Poetry by Isoken Osagie
I am not bereft, just panting
Poetry by Madelyn Monaghan
Self-Executing Waiver
Two Poems by John Patterson
When your wings hit glass, do you feel it?
Poetry by Jamiya Leach
our palms pulping blue as homage, farewells.
Poetry By Charlotte Slivka
I am too bothered to see correctly
Poetry by Deandra Brunson
PLEASE FORGIVE ME FOR MY SKIN