Mama Ana Paula Also Writes Poetry
“I looked at her / back, strong like hairy bear that kills / a bull even when she’s drunk, and I understood:” | by Hu Xudong
“I looked at her / back, strong like hairy bear that kills / a bull even when she’s drunk, and I understood:” | by Hu Xudong
“and the outsized appetites/I am shedding bit by bit” | by Katherine Towler
“I have apprenticed myself to light,/to the way it moves through the world” | by Emily Portillo
“The pond rises and sways, wind-rippled/a gelatinous mirror ball waiting to fall” | by Daniel Zeiders
“Our house was a seabed of alien vines/reaching to touch the windowsills.” | by Emily Leithauser
“my son/can recognize Michael’s voice/anywhere” | by Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach
“It demands to be/ known. The gnats/ in their conductor’s/ dance.” | by Jordan Pérez
“The men’s experiment: to see if the righthand / claw, removed, might grow back.” | by Jordan Pérez
“I knew better than to protest/but my shoulders sloped/like the sides of the valley” | by Laura Voivodeship
“were almost twenty-five and twenty-eight:/even the connection on the phone was faint” | by Emily Leithauser
“The stranger didn’t eat much/and she didn’t dance/and she didn’t remove her plastered shoes” | by Brian Gyamfi
“Dandelions pass where I used to live./The gardener lets go of the river, the water whispers” | by Brian Gyamfi
“I took the boat out every morning, / allowing my hands to skim/the shimmering sky” | by Lauren Aliza Green