Poetry #25 Spring 2023
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Emma Bolden
Directional Points

Ronda Piszk Broatch
When Night Comes Wrapped in Asbestos 
I Desire the Things Which Will Destroy Me in the End 
I stole the moon, and it taught me to glow 

M. Cynthia Cheung
Summer Palace

Flower Conroy
Nudibranchs 

Jill Crammond
Sonnet for My Ex-Husband, Dead Again 

Sandra Crouch
This is how I answer my mother when she asks what I'm going to do with my life 
The Museum of Lost Bodies 

Satya Dash
Fashion Statement 
Night River 

Rita Feinstein
After I Stopped Eating 

Dan Fliegel
hoping you could make a manual sound 
If you listen while riding on busses 
Churches might only mean realization 

Lisa Higgs
Someone's Always Trying to Kill You 

Dennis Hinrichsen
[mosaic] [with Gatsby and the Sour Dead] 
[dominion] [with John Keats and a Napkin] 

Mara Jebsen
Revision 
Underbeat 

Abriana Jetté
Coincidence, or? 
Dolor, I

Letitia Jiju
Easy as Aleph

E.W.I. Johnson
Two Sonnets 

Ashley Kunsa
Even These Things We Cannot Touch 
The Year of Love

Susanna Lang
Testimony 

James Fujinami Moore
if I should die eaten by a Pomeranian 

Matthew Murrey
Tusk 

Pablo Otavalo
For I can’t and I won’t 
Leí Cien Años de Soledad en la casa de mi abuela 

Heather Qin
Stolen Ghazal 

Wesley Sexton
Forgiveness Time 

Ashish Kumar Singh
Self-Portrait As A Survivalist. 

Sara Sowers-Wills
Polysemy in Snow 

Sydney Vogl
Death Bloom 
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Elinor Ann Walker
Song for Cello & Girlhood 
Fugue State

Andrew Wells
"and the wave,"

Erin Wilson
Doppelgänger 
Recipe 

Marina Hope Wilson
Narrative 
Just Because it’s Electric Doesn’t Mean it Has Currency 

David Wojciechowski
Leaf / Not Leaf 

Jules Wood
Stripper Strike! 
It's Not That I Can't Take the Pain! It's the Shame! 

Ellen Zhang
Purple Poetry 

BJ Zhou
Off the second floor balcony of a fire-ridden Xinjiang apartment building, mid-jump

Jane Zwart
Hymnody 
Conditional Love Poem