Poetry – Page 2 – BIG OTHER

Five Poems, by Edwin Torres

The Interrupted Blanket the effort to remain ambiguous while your heart is beating —broken heart as shadowplay I stand…

What to Eat The way to be a powerful forty-year-old woman is not to eat. The way to be…

Moods at Noon I was rude to the king of soap. My childhood is no excuse or even the…

Garden In the first weeks we already knew this was history, that you’d speak of our nakedness, the flat…

Gravitas, an oval shape. We partially shot our windows, our idiot boxes so we don’t see your faces. The…

Catullus Sails to China (1) Now that my sojourn is circling a drain Should I slow this engine down…

I don’t ask experts I take a different route along a stream back up to the main road and…

Happy birthday, William Butler Yeats! Here are some quotes from his writing. “We make out of the quarrel with others,…

Spring, mid-afternoon I turn on the laughter up & over Small fireballs warning drivers not to turn It gets…

Poem #1022 There is not much excess and what there is is barely perceptible the blank ones disappear from…