by Danielle | Aug 23, 2024 | Guest Poems
Unpacking a Bomb Articles for the Blind wrapped securely as a bomblike Dad impossible to open Dad’s… his presentscontaining surprise practical mug: King Charles...
by Danielle | Aug 23, 2024 | Guest Poems
That Tremendous Fish after Elizabeth Bishop So, I let the fish go, but it did not swim away,remaining instead port-side of the hired boat,right eye staring unblinking into my startled gaze. I raised the revs on the motor but it stalked me.The bows pushed harder...
by Danielle | Aug 16, 2024 | Guest Poems
Du Lac My lover was born under a wet star.He is not my first, but he is my favourite.The waters of the lake hold the shape of my body in their silt.I found him at the water’s edge,blurring into the shallows like a mirage.His hands slid over my shouldersand droplets...
by Danielle | Aug 16, 2024 | Guest Poems
Last Inhabitant Left on Earth Give me one place only –one area the size of Americatoo large to fathom where I willmake myself known asking formore space a fortress where tobuild upon and declaring myselfto you without animosity. What’s left on earth notlooking...
by Danielle | Jul 8, 2024 | Guest Poems
The Poisoner’s Poison Sleep has led me one step to the leftof lead.A periodic transition to thallium:softer certainly,like freezer bread thawing. But there’s still no stretch inside thisgrey,tasteless,odourless shape. Though they say sometimeswe live in secrets -that...
by Danielle | Jul 8, 2024 | Guest Poems
On Hearing of the Death of Benjamin Zephaniah 7.12.2023 Because they told me in the neutral grey of an ordinary day when the sun neither shone nor set,when the rain could do no more than drizzle, when all I was doing ...
