5 Micropoems Published at The Short of It!
I am so pleased to share five of my micropoems, Leap, Aligning, Straight On, Descent, and Landing, are published at The Short of It!
Tag: Free Verse
Today, a Waterfall
Slippery along the rocky ridges of my throat, spring water floods the crystalline base of my heart . . .
آب را گل نکنیم: Let us not Muddy the Water by Sohrab Sepehri
I am studying Creative Writing at the University of Arizona and, in a nod to my heritage, I am learning Persian as a second language. As part of the department’s end-of-year Persian showcase, my professor invited me to translate a contemporary Iranian poem into English and learn the original poem in Persian.
Because of how timeless the poem is and how poignant its message is even today, I hope you will enjoy this translation of Sohrab Sepehri’s poem آب را گل نکنیم, or Let us not Muddy the Water.
Still Life with Gaza
It’s day six in Mexico and the coffee jar is empty. We walk down the dusty road to the restaurant as the sun cries in the ocean behind us, the beautiful ocean, seagulls crying . . .
Blood Moon
He holds the world in his stomach. He holds a pomegranate that he breaks with hands the size of my feet . . .
Poem Impending
I tied twilight in bunches with rosemary from the rafters. In summer I brewed it between copper and winter . . .
Pink Hydrangea
Coffee brews thick and foamy today with hints of equinox in the cream. It is a morning to sit and mourn with summer dew as sun sweeps the grass dry and the hydrangea flowers reach for September . . .
Book Review: Whistler of Petty Crimes by Eileen Ike West
I recently had the pleasure of reading Eileen Ike West’s debut poetry collection, Whistler of Petty Crimes, and am delighted to share a book review of this transportive poetic narrative.
The poems in this book are not short as each one imparts a story that plays into the narrative of the author’s life from childhood to adulthood. The poetic landscapes are rich with emotion and imagery and the writing alive with a sense of lives lived.