Awake
This morning I bramble toward waking—
alarm alarm alarm snarling my dreams like little girls
around a pile of marbles arguing quitsies,
no quitsies. This morning I don’t know. This morning
I ...
Awake by Kerrin McCadden
LAR Online, Poetry
After the pink blossoms surrender & parachute,
Thousands of thumbnail size peaches overpopulate the branches.
I know they will naturally thin with the first harsh rain.
In early July, when the fruit is the size ...
The Beekeeper by Bruce Cohen
LAR Online, Poetry
No one tries to become a ghost.
But then you wake spectral
in the barrel of an empty shotgun
apartment like an unspent round.
Apart-ment. You lose your self in the erasure
of the city’s map: Independence ...
Unf n shed Bus ness by Benjamin Aleshire
LAR Online, Poetry
When she’s starving herself
When she lets her bones rise like the wreck of the Frances
at the convergence of minus tides, new moons,
after a winter of superstorms:
When you consider the thumb-sucking ...
Feast by Carla Panciera
LAR Online, Poetry
First runner-up in the 2020 Los Angeles Review Literary Awards, in the category of poetry.
Final Judge: Francisco Aragón
is the history of migration
even the continents refuse
to stay in one place
one day these ...
The History of the Earth by Miguel Angel Garcia, Jr.
Award Winners, LAR Online, Poetry
Winner of the 2020 Los Angeles Review Literary Awards, in the category of poetry.
Final Judge: Francisco Aragón
What world did I open
by finding you—forty dollars of
milk-pale beast. Each of our lives
started ...
Thrift Store Fur by Aimee Seu
Award Winners, LAR Online, Poetry
We invited them over, from their fields to ours.
To join us naked and playful, to give them
Hope. To watch us joyfully trample our own lands—
And witness the greening anew overnight.
Our fields. Paid for, no ...
Neighborly by Martha Rhodes
LAR Online, Poetry
Underground for years, cicada-like, it
surfaces, starts the sad, bright sawing:
my story of your story. Something triggers,
un-expectedly. Curly haired kid at the cash
register or the way a woman cups one ...
Should I Listen to the Trees by Jane Poirier Hart
LAR Online, Poetry
this is what too much heat does to the body:
grandfathers push grocery carts into the ocean
God on board, Vishnu among the vegetables
..........greased-up stars implode in the dailies and
when Venus grows all hot and ...
Paris is for Lovers by Grace Li
LAR Online, Poetry
