Poem – No Man’s Land (By Rony Nair)

van Diemen’s land eclipsed in artwork A solitary Joshua tree curling, fetal, looking outwards its instinct tailored, to fold itself in.   and wrap yourself around your arms even as you scream “not here”   take me somewhere else you say ribald, Nostradamus hued.   Alone. one wondered if you, who liked the drumbeats to suggest how much of music […]

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Poem – It Sounds Dramatic (By R.T. Castleberry)

  In this small, blue room— overheated, clenched by melancholy, I sit the night, guarding carnival goods, blood potions, the knife thrower’s serrated blades. Two buskers beach-walk a tune, harmonies muffled by wave’s insistence. A mathematical conceit of stars burning to earth enriches water’s lap against pier beams, a night sailor’s crossing.   Taken on as apprentice, the alchemist insists […]

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