One for Sorrow
A crow once gifted me pine needles tucked into a paperclip. She left it on my windowsill, right beside the […]
Audio, Christopher Whitney, Ekphrasis, Ekphrastic Challenge, Poems
Ekphrasis
Audio, Ekphrasis, Ekphrastic Challenge, Pat Singer, Poems
In the Dream-Pool
All summer long, the pool was closed, and I swam continents, asleep. Glimpses of aqua through a fence.
Audio, Ekphrasis, Ekphrastic Challenge, Pat Singer, Poems
Visiting the Gardens at DePugh Nursing Center, Winter Park, Florida
As if I am in a zoo, I peer through bars of the black iron fence. Restricted by the coronavirus
Audio, Ekphrasis, Ekphrastic Challenge, Liz Magee, Poems
A Duty to Look Beautiful
Yes, armless is harmless. That’s how we want our women to be. No attachments, free from holding a job or
Ekphrasis, Ekphrastic Challenge, Liz Magee, Poems
Mantra
for Leonard Cohen, 1934–2016 A crack in everything, he told us—that’s how light gets in. And yes, he always knew
Aurore Uwase Munyabera, Ekphrasis, Ekphrastic Challenge, Poems
Circles
On a page a word stirs. Stirring stalks flower buds of May. May showers tease our forlorn skies,