Cindy Juyoung Ok
Where was I to look?
Patients laid along both
long walls.
from the journal
The Margins
In our series Other Arts, we asked poets to write about experiences in other arts and the making of poetry.
- September 24, 2023
Max Sessner (translated from the German by Francesca Bell)
in her dreams it often appeared
but always as if it belonged to someone
else a cold comfort we thought
- September 23, 2023
Brenda Shaughnessy
It's just an object, it's not me.
I'm more than an object, we are not having tea.
- September 22, 2023
Ana Pugatch
I cup the frozen
body of evening,
trace the lines
that creep along
the beetle's velvet
shell.
- September 21, 2023
Afaa M. Weaver
We count our wishes, to be free,
to be at ease, to be in abundance.
Above us spirits whirl in a thunderhead
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