Poetic Medicine

By Samuel Menashe Taut with longing    You must become    The god you sought—    The only one.

By Bob Holman Like everybody else, I wasn’t a Jew Until I came to New York. In Portland, OR, The other day, a young Latina asked me If ...

By Matthew Thorburn The amazing thing is not that geese can get sucked into an Airbus engine and cause it to conk out or that a pilot can...

By Carol Ann Duffy  Tha gaol agam ort * A thistle can draw blood,                                             so can a rose, grow...

By Terrance Hayes Blacks in one box Blacks in two box Blacks on Blacks stacked in boxes stacked on boxes Blacks in boxes stacked on ...

By Blythe Baird  When recovery is not all yoga mats and tea and avocados, it is work. It is listening to your body rather than pretending...

By Anthony Frame 1. My composition classes never seemed so worthless; they'll give their arms to return to these wasted chairs. ...

By Daniel Johnson Rockets concuss. Guns rattle off. Dogs in a public square feed on dead horses. I don’t know, Jim, where you are. W...

By Erik Campbell Papua, Indonesia In this mining town in Papua the electricity Has a habit of giving up at night, and this Is a miracle of m...

By Sydney Lea When was the last lobotomy, I wonder? Too late for Carl at least, whom it’s all but hopeless to think of as a whipsaw o...

By Leonard Cohen I saw some people starving There was murder, there was rape Their villages were burning They were trying to escape I cou...

By Marge Piercy The people I love the best jump into work head first without dallying in the shallows and swim off with sure strokes al...

By Margaret Phillips   The Mayflower Saints may have walked in this place where I am walking where I don’t know how to ask ...

By Carl Stevens This is the tale of an awful schism that rocked the cradle of capitalism: a story of hatred, anger and greed; a stor...

By Dick Allen Air out the linens, unlatch the shutters on the eastern side, and maybe find that deck of Bicycle cards lost near the sofa...

By Aaron Tieger  Your profile pic gives me pangs in old places. It’s different when it’s psychic. Here today your bikini like twin ...

By Mairead Byrne When you left it was as if one wall of the house was taken down. I walked out through that large door into the car...

By Childish Gambino i wanna be a white rapper. i wanna be so white i'm the biggest rapper of all time. i wanna be so white i can hav...

By Ian House For now the city's at peace. The sniper's rifle is upright between his knees, his hands are soothed by the barrel a...

By Claudio Roberto Veale i lift up words  and place them  holding each thinness each flat square thinking nothing of meaning and ever...