Poetry

  • Colleen Anderson

    Colleen Anderson

    Cuntipotent

     I’m tired of being cliticized
    cut off from a womb of feeling
    and accused of being frigid

    I want more than my clit flicked
    as if it were a fly
    or poked and pushed like the panic button…

  • George Elliott Clarke

    George Elliott Clarke

     Othello Eyes Desdemona

    A soft, luminous body shouldn’t spigot
    blood.
    But I look at her like Hannibal—
    that bull-headed Negro—
    looked upon Rome.

    Hefting a tomahawk,
    I descend from Plato’s Cave
    to cancel Pandora’s Box.

    She drowses.
    Her breasts …

  • Paula Maciejewski

    Paula Maciejewski

    Nature’s Encore

     Clouds drift by
    Like cars in slow motion
    White fluffy
    Cotton balls
    A variety of shapes and sizes
    Spread on blue wallpaper

    Some taking up more space than others
    King-sized soft cushions
    Initiated by the wind they…

  • Amu Nnadi

    Amu Nnadi

    A Field of Echoes

    … and mind flutters to a close
    eyelids to slumber
    all over, a certain darkness emerges
    earth is populated with nothing
    but a tempered sigh t

    night flashes white underwear
    as meteor, quickly closes her thighs…

  • Obari Gomba

    Obari Gomba

    On Bull-Headed Art

    (Twelve Random Shots)

    1

    Nothing
    Surpasses the length of art.
    Nothing, not even
    Earthwide stretch of dust.
    If fear is the ware you
    Bring to town,
    Go sell it to the marines
    And to terrorists.
    They are …

  • Tope Omoniyi

    Tope Omoniyi

    Berlin 1997

    I came
    thinking of the wall
    that halved you long ago
    I came unprepared
    for what you’ve become

    East to West
    Coca-Cola and McDonalds
    Spaghetti and Tandoori
    light global candles
    on concrete mantles and glass screens
    your days …

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