Poetry – Page 6 – BIG OTHER

Five Poems, by Elaine Equi

Writing Is Remembering But not remembering the past. It is remembering the future. How do you know a word…

1: Frame 22, 2007 Our clouded heads dissolve to cloud. Some boy— enthralled by giant birds—jigs and stomps in pools…

“Think well of distance” —Gertrude Stein I it’s hard to remember places you haven’t been pre-worlds flooded by their…

Happy birthday, Big Other contributor Elaine Equi! Celebrate by reading the three Equi poems below, which we published in 2024!…

Translated by Ariel Francisco Old Portrait There was a time when I was dark. My shoes always too big…

a photograph of tree limbs scrawny limbs float below the surface, reflections in an oily mass of decomposition defining autumn…

1 This is the forest entangled the murmuring sun a gap but full flat on arroyos draws a ridge of…

Illustrations 1 Droplets falling languidly from one green platform to another like it are illustrative. 2 In a twinkling…

A Clasp of Some Sort 1 “The Silver Swan”—that’s funny I thought swans white, unlike and yet the one who…

Everything Must Go Including the words letters, punctuation marks. Even the screen. What Part of Yes Don’t You Understand?…