The Swimmer by Christina Hutchins Underwater I became a girlwith a young man’s ripe backthe muscles curledaround definite bones But what you saw from above–a blue-green daemon fraught with ripplenone of my lines a line–  I was brokenshuffled     yet I moved whole It is me again     at the far sidesurfacing     my face and shouldersreassembled     solidity of …

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Ghost by Frank Bidart You must not think what I haveaccomplished through you could have been accomplished by any other means. Each of us is to himselfindelible. I had to become that which could not be, by time, from human memory, erased. I had to burn my hungry, unappeasablefurious spirit so inconsolably into you you …

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Autopainophile by Joshua Jennifer Espinoza My favorite thing is slowly pullinginto my parking spot at homejust as the song I’ve been feelingthings to finally ends. All these movie momentsand hand cutting wind in half dreamscome for me as ifsent by some light that wantsto watch me survive. In the movies people like medon’t survive and …

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Movie by Eileen Myles You’re likea little fruityou’re likea moon I wantto holdI said lemon slopeabout yourhipbecause it’s oneof my wordsabout youI whisperedin bedthis smoothingthe fruit &then alonewith my bookbut writingin it the pageswaggingagainst my knucklesin thelight like asail. from SORRY TREE, copyright 2007 by Eileen Myles. Published by Wave Books. Most Poetry will post …

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Poem (I lived in the first century of world wars) by Muriel Rukeyser I lived in the first century of world wars.Most mornings I would be more or less insane,The newspapers would arrive with their careless stories,The news would pour out of various devicesInterrupted by attempts to sell products to the unseen.I would call my …

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