Category: submissions

Song by Marine Cornuet

In the dark times, will there also be singing?
Yes. There will also be singing. About the dark times. – Bertolt Brecht

You’ve been thinking about the gold rim
of a priest’s robe, a glimpse of light caught
while turning the pages of a book
about ancient Egypt.

You’ve been traveling with a headlight
in the backyards and bedrooms
of a sunken city, somewhere
near the center of the Mediterranean sea.

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come back Cy Twombly by Chance Austin-Brecher

chalk dust subsumes
          our fingertips
           into the board, a shared
                       motion of
                       our fingertips circling
           the board
                       subsuming chalk
                       dust, no
                                master, no
                        artist,
                                  only
                                             medium

Chance Austin-Brecher is a San Diego based poet born in Redlands, California.