Today my husband told me
I must know the ABCs of poetry.
”Take it seriously”, he said
It’s no longer A for Apple, B for Ball, and C for Cool
Now it’s a game of AABBCC and ABABAB,
Alphabets will stay closer together.
Category: Poetry
(if we’re very lucky) Death by DS Maolalai
it’s wonderful, frankly,
being comfortable.
and I spent so long
in search of suffering
to breed a poet’s
soul. I had – and we all have –
my romantic aspirations,
but there’s nothing else
like this, or shouldn’t be;
like falling over
Weighted Blanket by Grace Hui
You understand worlds I do not, pull them
into words I cannot, but it is more than your brilliance
I love—
it is how you wrapped me tight, a weighted blanket
when I was spiralling, spiralling,
spiralling so dizzy I was heaving,
spinning out of control, my molecules
colliding
when you held me tight,
and made sure I was fine in the morning.
anti-feeling by Jonathan Chan
‘i just have a lot of feelings you know.’
– 2016
Seasonal Depression Guide by Morgan Boyer
Traverse along the pebble-filled potholes,
wander aimlessly through the aisles at CVS,
gazing at every variety of potato chips in their
plastic bags whose wrinkles glisten ever so slightly.
buy something just because you’d feel awkward
going somewhere and coming back with nothing.
Bird Calls by Connie Woodring
Tweet-atweet-atweet
chirpchew, tweettweettweet, chirp, twittertoo
sqeeeez, twittwit, cheep, atweet
chirp, aacoocoocoo, hoothoothoot, chirpchirpcheeou,
scraaaaaaaaacawcaw
Seeds, seeds, seeds
Cat, danger, cat, cat, fly away
Worms, bugs, eat, do like me
Uninvited Onions by Hermione Cameron
I am embarrassed by my dissection of the sandwich. My fingers pick away at it, clumsily pulling apart the various parts, like some inexpert surgeon.
Why did they have to put onions in it? Is nothing sacred?
Outside the window someone who looks a bit like someone I know walks by.
I continue my open-heart sandwich surgery, easing open the bread skeleton, pulling apart the strands of cheesy yellow flesh, prodding around the tomato red blood cells.