After we lost the child, a hole appeared between your lungs. At first it was the size of a gasp, an apple, a fist. Then it widened into the size of a plate, a small face. We had read about this sort of thing ...
The Child Puts Apples into the Mouth of the Tree by Claire Wahmanholm
LAR Online, Poetry
Cenotaph
In a chance encounter, a stranger who knew you in your Mordovian evacuation, described the horrible hunger, and described you as a hungry boy who always carried a book.
1.
On this ...
Two Poems by Valzhyna Mort
LAR Online, Poetry
Translated by Caroline Wilcox Reul
watch the earth through lenses
cut on distant planets,
lost from a massive freighter
during a flyover, unnoticed
by all earthly monitors, perhaps a hatch
or double door left ...
Two Poems by Carl-Christian Elze
LAR Online, Poetry, Translations
These measly fractions of
our lives—the crumbs
we horde shivering
and the theoretical
models of its atoms
which we first have
to sketch,
then believe in, then rage
to remember—
they're just ...
Incorruptible Actuality, a poem by Dan Smart
LAR Online, Poetry
Meanwhile, while we were off
practicing mindfulness, a deer
staggered half-way up our drive
and collapsed on the front lawn,
most likely struck by a car.
Robin left it on voicemail,
asking if she could ...
You Have the Tools, Use Them by Carol Moldaw
Book Reviews, Poetry
Yardwork
Every weekend I give you chores:
rake, fill feeders, give the grass a mow.
My body, too, is told to work, while yours—
lush and flowering on all scores—
is asked to wait for what mine might grow.
All ...
Three Poems by Keetje Kuipers
LAR Online, Poetry
For beauty is nothing
but the beginning of terror…
—Rainer Maria Rilke
For my father
I. The JUNIPER BERRIES
Fear’s what quickens me.
To steal juniper berries from heaven,
from the hands of these ...
The History of Gin by Jessica Bundschuh
LAR Online, Poetry
Diaspora Sonnet 50
I take my name and place it on a stone.
I throw the stone into the lake and watch me
widen in circles. Who am I to hold this world
in my fist? I already know the bottom
displaces ...
Four Poems by Oliver de la Paz
LAR Online, Poetry
My Lord I saw a dog today, and she
stood like a compass needle beside
her person—muscles tough as knotted
wood, thick grey fur, eyes shining. The harness
around belly and shoulders let the man
pull her ...
My Lord I saw a dog today, and she by Alex Mouw
LAR Online, Poetry
