Sarah León: “New World”
“There is something bigger happening / than a window to the world”
Weekly poems, selected by the editors. Featuring new work as well as poems from our rich archives.
“There is something bigger happening / than a window to the world”
doom’s business / falls in a rag pile / lined with bones
“the smartest person in the room’s / the room”
“Children have a knack / For viciousness”
“In the background always a lake, / always the one you kept trying to row across.”
“the swell / of narcotics transmuted / into testament”
“I still glow in a passel / of neurons”
“baptized in loose silt / of Mississippi relish”
“in its mutinous wisdom”
“because what isn’t circling inside us that also isn’t circling outside us?”