In huts boiled rice a family sits with expectation especially the children tearing scraps of paper biting, eating and a country moves on with railway tracks and trains entering passengers witness to seething darkness it does not matter what you eat it matters why you eat as economists and sociologists define the poverty of experience […]
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Hot Dogs 1 Noses, lips, intestines, anuses— With relish I bite into the hot dog Slathered in mustard, ketchup, And, well, relish … If every hot dog Takes five minutes off your life, I figure I’ll die a week early. I can live with that. …
On January 12, 2009, the English poet and editor Mick Imlah died at age 52. He was the author of two books, Birthmarks (1988) and The Lost Leader (2008). After graduating from Oxford with a first (top grade) in 1979, Imlah helped revive Oxford Poetry. He became poetry editor of the Times Literary Supplement in…
visit an art museum—or, if that proved difficult, to go to the website of New York’s Metropolitan Museum, the National Gallery, the Barnes Foundation, or some other great institution—and write a sonnet about the painting you name in your title. The wonderful works that came in re-confirmed my belief that what we are doing is…
For how many hundreds of centuries have I not seen the image of your face nor searched for it. The search for the face by the dust-settled window panes in the gold-rimmed orb of the scorching sun went on the flittering gaze of a blue-bottle fly from here to there. The aroma in those lost…
Wind brushes by trees which are a stop over to skies pointing upwards and hills in chorus claiming mortality. No change, these hills suffuse time and space leaving a huge blank of hope. They spill over into dreams but when morning arrives they change colours in shades of blue and green. They a crescent, they…
He worked in a sweat shop way back when a wordless widowed man with a quiet hypnotic expression coming home on a bus one day fell to the floor and passed away, my beloved uncle I missed his mystical silence I knew he could see inside me They prepared to sell his house sifting through…
