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DAVID ISAHYA OSU: Poems
Jan 1, 20201 min read
The Anchorage
A poem by BERNARD O'DONOGUE
Dec 30, 20191 min read
From Witch to Saint
1. Voices clamor, church bell, simple brass, a calling breeze to leaves --- Others tempt to want more: armor, blood, men on horseback,...
Nov 15, 20192 min read
Vitreous
The fact of transparency doesn’t mean You know what is happening. Consider The window, which wasn’t built to know That the closet doors...
May 23, 20191 min read
Darde Dell
The expression Darde Dell in Persian — literally ‘pain heart’ — means sitting with a friend and sharing your sorrows Oh, my friend let’s...
May 17, 20192 min read
Tenochititlan, 1523
Poem of the Week by Francisco Aragón strange while fishing sun lowering itself everyone...
May 7, 20191 min read
ARRIVALS
STEPHEN ROMER In the dejection, the treadmill of travel, a cowed, haltered, processed client, with two items of baggage and a transparent...
Apr 16, 20191 min read
Fruit Juice
you make my mouth water . as if I've crushed a / cantaloupe . or . clementine
Nov 17, 20182 min read
Insight
What was it he saw in that long split second when the solid rock opened to show its workings and he went feet first into the...
Apr 17, 20181 min read
Embrace
from a certain shore, / you did not look so distant, / and I fell giddy at / the thought of boats.
Nov 23, 20171 min read
My Hands are Light Blue
Silent gesture of unbeing: Silk slip slips, Upslips, unslips up. Cold elbow outcrooked In gesture silent unbent Unto ungesture Untowards...
Apr 17, 20171 min read
Ghazal
In the end, when the world has taken the full hush of me, It will be said that there had been quite enough of me. I swore that I would...
Apr 17, 20171 min read
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