Tag: LGBTQIA
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“Tracing Rivers” and other poems by Leo Kuhling
Ambiguous Loss She is a mortician. You see she doesn’t move. No eyes open, only ragged breath. Flushed cheeks. Silence. She has prepared the body nearly a century. Not yet embalmed but ready. The lipstick is a light rose, it makes white face seem ghostly And glasses perch on a nose like mine if lids…
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“Eat Up” and other poems by Fiadha McLysaght
Eat Up At home I bury my face in the crease of your elbow You cover my mouth as though quenching a flame In return, my fingernails incise the back of your hand as a gift to you coupled with a promise: I would never do that on purpose I cannot understand why you are…
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“affairs of the unsettled” and other poems by Olly Lenihan
The Robin You show me your robin bright little bird you are gentle with him He trusts you, dear, eats from your hand not scared in the slightest Not as he should be not as I was you were not gentle with me G.R.C.C. (Galway Rape Crisis Centre) Through winding…
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“Vase Painters” and other poems by Magdalene Fry-Bigby
Fractyl Poem — Seeming, Appearance and Being How the true was with world Is sometimes bricked Out with bangles, Sound and sight both alike. Put your paint this Side, put it that Side, we talk a lot, like Talkers. And face This way, blink, brush Through lashes, powder on Powders, a look For, or about,…
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“English Breakfast Love Song” and other poems by Rhiannon Grant
English Breakfast Love Song I am longing to pour out my soul to you in words which show my creativity and let off my head of steam but my soul is not so liquid it comes out in funny lumps uneven like old-fashioned sugar ready to make sure your tea is always too sweet…
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“Market Prayer” and other poems by Annemarie Ní Churreáin
Laundry Here in the Indian foothills, I share a house with a man from Greece who speaks no English perfectly, disappears for days on a motorbike, leaves his laundry on the low make-shift line, grieving an absent sun. Side by side they hang: his shirt, my summer dress as if they…
Chris Murray 