Poetry – Page 30 – BIG OTHER

Ode from a Mockingbird, by Tom La Farge

1. Tu fritchyoo wenk wenk chooble-chooble-dee Chebeck tzabira cheeva queedle whoo, Chyoo kuk kuk kuk tzee! kuk kuk kuk wee!…

Sekhmet Transcriptions Rivers of red in Sekhmet waylaid thoughts waylaid only the voice hovers clouds hush not stop.…

Feeling the nausea rising, he ran out into the courtyard and vomited on a dwarf palm tree. —Michel Houellebecq …

Juxtaposition and parataxis are key techniques of composition across the traditional genres of fiction, drama, and poetry. The former refers…

Voiceover conversant with Before During After as much a screwdriver that made impersonating Red Yellow Blue auteur the glorifying test…

The Contraries Circle’s motion goes / against all endpoints. Rare area / roar. Space, a massless rigidity / /…

I am invaded by blankness where a curious Portuguese erupts where its vowels transmix with sub-components of English marked by…

Visible From Space In the crosswalk, a woman plods, swinging her arms briskly. One of many who act out…

41 All I really want to do is stab people. Once, I got a chance to do it. But the…

Shout-out especially to the living poets whose poetry I’ve very much enjoyed reading over the years: Will Alexander, Andrew Joron,…