All I Know to Do: Poetry by Christopher Hewitt
All I Know to Do
Now even the numbers
have no meaning for me
metaphors like stars
snuff out Oh I care
but I repeat myself
the chanting the banners
the...
Bed Making After the ER: Poetry by Robert Carr
Bed Making After the ER
if I hold this threadbare sheet
just right
let hot breeze
blow through my open window
and become noon light
I can almost feel the...
If you believe you are safe: Poetry by Tara-Michelle Ziniuk
If you believe you are safe
ring silence draped over night.
bring our end.
I a mess
want your attention,
applause.
There is a purpose for you
real
brutal
clear.
Two hundred thousand million...
“Learning the Love Song…”: Poetry by Jennifer Su
"Learning the Love Song..."
A girl leaves behind her beloved island, to seek the cure, riding a poem over the Pacific, like a lifeboat full...
Elegy for Ken Meeks: Poetry by Travis Chi Wing Lau
Elegy for Ken Meeks
*After Paul Monette
sanitary white meant i had crossed the threshold into the
kingdom of the sick where court is held to an...
Copper blue carrier protein: Poetry by Monica Carroll
Copper blue carrier protein
—Monica Carroll
Monica Carroll writes speculative poetry about the possibilities of health breakthroughs and barriers. She holds a PhD in philosophy and...
Visit IV: Poetry by Mary Kathryn Vernon
Editor's note: Originally appeared in the August 2005 issue of A&U.
Visit IV
On the skirted porch
that flanks two sides of the house,
on a wicker table,
kept...
Shades: Poetry by Jim Nawrocki
Originally featured in the January 2010 issue of A&U.
Shades
Inspired by the filming of Gus Van Sant’s film Milk,
in San Francisco’s Castro district, January, 2008
They...
Caroling at St. Vincent’s, 1986: Poetry by Marcia Pelletiere
Caroling at St. Vincent's, 1986
So typical of the sick, for years, my mind
bent over microscopes, brooding
for the millionth time about my injury.
But now and...
Lines on my HIV Test: Poetry by Mike Zimmerman
Lines on my HIV Test
“Glory and light of poets! now may that zeal
and love’s apprenticeship that I poured out
on your heroic verses serve me...
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