Poetry
Poetry
In the Belly of the Whale
Last night I dreamt of / walking to Auger Beach / at dusk / only to find the tide / too high again:
notes on anticipation
In this moment that has come to happen / in other moments, the notes / of birds nestled in my asking.
Two Poems
The new year begins in winter white embroidery— / trumpeter swans and needle-slim herons piercing / drainage ditches.
Every Morning I Take a Bus Through the West Bank (II)
As I look out upon a landscape now heavily shaped by American colonialism, I know another world is possible.
Math Problem with a River
A farmer with a wolf, a goat and a cabbage must cross a river by boat.
Tributary
The year I meet granpa my hands mimic clouds. / Charybdis turning turpid pools / beneath his globes— vision I have awaited.
Electrician’s Litany
The Opera House power vault / blows and knocks out the local grid / on our first day of work together.
Excerpts from The Work Is Done When We Are Dead
We don't know. / Despite thousands of years spent / conceptualizing moralities of power, / theorizing hierarchies / or their abolition...
Superstition Sonnet
Teri Vela’s “Superstition Sonnet” invites readers to dispense with everything they think they know about the sonnet. It is not the rules of a form, but the warp and weft of intergenerational violence and prevailing softness that tethers these intricate lines together into a powerful reverse origin story.
“Object Permanence” and Other Poems
In her dazzling suite of text poems, image poems, and art, Tina Lentz-McMillan designates the negative space in every page as an intimate collaborator in her story. Her speaker is an un-silenced witness: of obsession, desire, and the ache of longing—and of what (and who) lives on even in the liminal territory of erasure.
