God and I, earth and sky, and family are all-significant in Scott Ferry’s book of poems, Sapphires on the Graves (Glass Lyre Press, 2024). A book of prose poems stylistically void of capital letters, the lower case g for God, complemented by the lower case i, suggests poetry is more about questions than answers. Ferry’s lower case g suggests the secular, an entity in the universe, a creator of all or nothing. His lower case i connotes we; he writes from …
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“Koan” * A Fairytale Poem in English and German * Kerstin & Werner Schulz * Plus Audio
Author’s note: My father, Werner Schulz, passed away last January after a long battle with cancer. He was a retired German professor who taught German language and literature as well as the occasional course on Folklore. He left me his collected creative works which are unpublished except his dissertation on Johannes Bobrowski, an East German early 20th century poet. Over the past year I’ve chosen to translate some of his “fairytale” pieces from German into English. Koan translated by …
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Masala Chai & Other Poems by Oormila Vijayakrishnan Prahlad
Masala chai always reminds me of rest stops and rain – Himalayan apple orchards wrapped around rugged trails, the smell of mountain soil, tatters of sky flashing blue smudging to thundercloud grey – a lot like your eyes – I could never tell where the gold ended and the filaments of green began. Nothing comforts the soul like a cup of masala chai, you whispered, savouring the milky decoction of black tea and cloves. Cardamom pods bobbed like boats, in …
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“I Like Beer” * Flash Fiction * Yash Seyedbagheri
Nick thinks of beer. No, he dreams of beer. Hungover, ghost of six beers past churning in his corpulent stomach, that word sings, beer. Beer. En route to classes, a graduate student he thinks about beer. He conjures the amber ale of 90 Shillings, the bitter sour of a La Folies from New Belgium. He tries not to conjure beer, but after another lecture from his father, full of dissection, bad son, weak, too artistic, the beer calls. Drink me, …
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“Geology and Genealogy” * A Poem by Kyle Erickson
He spent years under Oklahoma stones. Even after washed and dried, his shirt held their incense. When building chimneys, the odor of wet mortar settled into his beard. Portland dust fertilized his boots with city-germinating aroma— skyscrapers and sidewalks come from this dust and will return to it. After a rain, the New York City pavement composed him, yesterday, in his son’s memory. Stone or concrete perfumes him into existence, out of thin air, for his descendants. Anywhere. —About the …
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Poetry and Short Prose by Karo Caran, Includes Recipes!
*Aromatica Poetica is delighted to present Karo Caran’s food and family inspired prose and poetry, including a couple of Grandma’s recipes as part of our Blind Writers Project series sponsored by Awesome Foundation Disability* Salt Child of the earth In shades of pink and white — Noble dweller of rocks Of oceans’ endless sighs Guest of the body, Stardust of the ground — Noble dweller in tears Of joy and grief so profound Ever-present force, Course through life with care, …
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