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Coriander by Juliet Wilson

2/3/2021

 
FOOD
Today I want to praise my coriander plants:

How they poked through second-hand soil after just two days
rather than the two weeks I was told to expect.

How they glow green on the summer window ledge
giving off a heady aroma every time I brush past.

How they transform my hurried cooking
into something that tastes like real curry.

How they make me imagine
feast days in the tropics.

Wandering, by Sandra James

1/3/2021

 
TRAVEL
Sun rises over a glistening sea
sand sticks between the anaemic toes
of feet released from their leather prison
a greedy crab
hungrily eyes the scarlet tip
of the little piggy who went to market
and vigilant foam covers my tracks

Like Robinson Crusoe
I explore virgin territory
until a minnow filled rock pool
shatters my illusions
vertebrates dart
beneath a wayward coke bottle
man has crossed this path
before

Where You Take Me, by Miya Yamanouchi

1/3/2021

 
TRAVEL
His ceaseless sadistic sensuality is my portal,
thrusting me into a different time and space.

A place of delicate delirium,
blanketed in perverted proclivities,
where nothing else exists but He.

A setting of serene sacrificial servitude,
where my one purpose, is his bliss.

A world of slaughterous promises,
prettily packaged as tenderly love.

A domain where neck and hand prove exhaustedly inseparable,
where oxygen is but secondary to desire.

A realm where my pain is his lustful compulsion,
and I, the merry masochistic enabler.

A land of merciless messy madness,
where his deranged sentiments,
tuck me in to sleep at night.

If Only You Had Left Me Alone, by Candace Arthuria Williams

1/3/2021

 
FOOD
It is the custom to crack

Open the shell

And eat of its fruit.


But what if you are inside

Cocooned in a fetal position

And along they come with sharpened picks

To hack at your security

Plucking you out into chaos.


If only you had left me alone

Safe and warm from the teeth of the external

Why did you crack open the safety of my domain?

To cut me to pieces and devour me.

I am ravaged by your gluttony

Exposed to a multitude of sins

Yet too broken to return.


If only you had left me alone

Romanticizing Paris, by Swati Moheet Agrawal

1/3/2021

 
TRAVEL
One, two; one, two,
the heart beats in excitement, in joy,
in a trance of ecstasy.

Now I’m filled with delight,
now the exhilaration has seized me with its fangs.

Delicious mouthfuls of madeleines,
past my palate, down my gullet, into my tummy;
quaint villages and neighborhoods, museums and cafes;
a visit to the legendary Shakespeare and Company
frequented by Fitzgerald and Hemingway;
a walk along river Seine, scuffling and giggling,
locking lips under the Eiffel Tower.

On the other side of the world,
Paris beckons,
hoarder of moments,
how I love to travel.
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    Poetry

    This is the section where fiction prose becomes something else. We still expect the poems to be short, though – sonnets, perhaps, or around that length at the very most.

    Poems submitted should be
    no longer than 160 words
    and contain
    no more than 16 lines.

    100 words remains the approximate target...

    AND SO THEREFORE:
    We have decided
    We really don't like haikus
    They're not proper verse.


    Please submit using the Poetry Submissions Page.


    Please feel free to comment (nicely!) on any poems – writers appreciate it.
    Just at the moment, though, we're moderating some of them so there might be a slight delat before they appear.

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