Submissions are open for the MAYDAY Poetry Micro Chapbook Contest! Deadline to submit is July 31.
Featured Poetry
Human Sacrifice
by Krista Leahy
Wall, enemy, ally, shadow, tree, a toddler / given freedom to roam, requires one // banana-nut muffin, many hands, 56 / minutes to walk one Brooklyn city block.
Unbelong
by Mandira Pattnaik
Did you see a hapless, hunted woman, baby in arms? Her stare’s hollow. // Ahead of her, there’s a slithering line beaded with nowhere people.
While my Wife Is in the Hospital Recovering from a Stroke
by Richard-Yves Sitoski
There’s nothing to eat but fruit from baskets sent by friends // and I couldn’t care less about the fate of the world.
Weeds
by Barbara Schwartz
I think I am my savior’s thoughts, the stubborn beautiful ones / who refuse to go. It’s a temple in here / though I do not know // the prayers.
Empress of Ice Cream
by Barbara Schwartz
Hunger sneaks up // like two fingers flicking a pink / succulent moon.
Signed for the Unsigned
by Stella Santamaría
/ imported by the cities of / howling beach =artificial coral / on the bone knife of my corona / ring of past
Scaffold
by Jad Josey
How to say that we are all / of these stars, that I want / the suffering I cause to be less / than the raindrops on the fern fronds / outside their fog-blurred windows
Record of Demolition
by Nianxi Chen, translated from the Chinese by L. B. Tsau
Morning headaches are set to blow up my brain / The extra gift of great machines
What the Wire Hangers Say
by Kate Peper
Over and over / our thin necks / hang the likeness / of your unfilled / body // We’ve known you for so long / We just want // to get closer
