I Have to Believe that the Body Aspires to a Soul I tell you/there was something about that woman/her face/undiluted/ lips open/as if she were waiting/for the sky to come/down on her. There was something about it that/I needed to know/something that/I wanted to remember/something/it was the light/that mattered/this woman/gathered/the light/ held it in-side [...]
Category: Women Writers
A Celebration of Irish women poets on Bloomsday 2020
'Words Like Stars' by Roisin NĂ Neachtain How they flow unformed Then fix themselves like the stars Shivering and held up Worshipped And I And they Staggering and squawking Sweating and squabbling Night and day Wobbling words Singing Dust Dust Dust Corrosive mantles Wrought to a stain Stain us Stain the water to the earth [...]
‘Ludus’ and other poems by Roula-Maria Dib
Ludus or âA Thousand Poemsâ Youâve written a thousand poems for me, my friend --in your sapio-sudsy head⊠in a world as real as this one, where the ebb and flow of its soapy tides, brush off and on that murky shoreâ where all that canât but is, all that shouldnât but will, and all [...]
“The First Casualty of the Summer” and other poems by Emily S. Cooper
The First Casualty of the Summer Can a dropped ice cream be a joyful sight? A slight of thought, akin to road kill: a dead badger is still a badger that was once alive. Can a spark of juvenile pride (the curl tightly looped to touch the forehead of the whipped pile) be saved [...]
“Lady Jesus” and other poems by Arathy Asok
They ask me questions I will not answer They have come to ask of me, Many answers they sought. They did not look at my breasts, Or between my legs. It was my eyes, And inside my head they probed. They put out their hands And broke open my skull; They looked in to see [...]
