Nassau Weekly
  • Issues
  • Verbatim
  • Crosswords
  • About
  • Donate

Category: Poetry

  • New
  • Old
  • Random

after mother

“the catching of blood / & buttercream pipes / around edges as the mattress coils / find a home in my ribcage.”

by Nicolas Gregory on November 15, 2020November 15, 2020

Bruise

“First dusty lilac, hints of navy. / Sailing on the bay at dusk, aloft, / the dappled rising surface.”

by JuJu Lane on November 8, 2020November 8, 2020

Delaware

“Pine air, peace of mind. Quilts from your childhood with that sense of déjà vu, & then erasure”

by Sabrina Kim on November 1, 2020November 1, 2020

After the Darkness and Thunder

“That October was particularly dreary. / The clouds slid through the sky / Like lazy gondolas weighted down by unfurling ropes.”

by Peter Taylor on October 25, 2020October 25, 2020

Displaced

“To erase the blankness, / masked the cleaner’s sting / with lavender and sage, / found places for my mother’s / good omens”

by Mina Quesen on October 4, 2020October 3, 2020

Sure

“I’ll take any reason, / absurd to God, for something new. / That’s why I stood up, no doubt— for a little color.”

by Andrew Zacks on September 27, 2020September 27, 2020

Standstill

“and so came this sudden invention: /
Fourth-of-July firecrackers /
dipped in sour wine”

by Christien Ayers on September 20, 2020September 20, 2020

Hikari

“When electricity crawls across them / They glow in eerie light / Or crack in spiderwebs”

by Mina Quesen on July 28, 2020July 28, 2020

Anatomy of a Bleeding Heart

“The aorta / Is a warzone within my chest / Where I bleed out for the genocide of my ancestors”

by Gina Feliz on June 30, 2020June 30, 2020

Eliot in Love

“Despite being intended to clear his name, the response instead came off as spiteful and cruel. It did little to save his reputation, especially since his letters tell another story.”

by Mina Quesen on April 12, 2020June 30, 2020

Mama

“Florida, oxidized green, / obliged her on this point, rising / out of the pool into its mildew.”

by Andrew Zacks on March 8, 2020March 7, 2020

Young God

“The young god stumbles / out here”

by Emily McLean on March 1, 2020February 29, 2020


  • Next

Submit a Verbatim

    Recent Posts

    • Georgia Canon and the Blue Wave
    • Hats Off – Full Design
    • The Virtues of Friction
    • Thirty-One Years in the Making: The Story of the Menendez Brothers
    • Friendship, Inside-Out

    Popular Posts

    • 127 Unclaimed Rap Names
    • Thirty-One Years in the Making: The Story of the Menendez Brothers
    • The Problem with Calling Something “Aesthetic”
    • Why Kidz Bop Has to Stop
    • A Tale of Two Clubs

    Navigation

    • Home
    • Articles
    • Issues
    • Verbatim
    • Contact
    • Donate

    Categories

    • Campus
    • Reflections
    • Poetry
    • Podcasts
    • Fiction
    • Lists

    Join Us

    • About
    • Privacy Policy
    • Submit an article
    • Submit a verbatim

    © Nassau Weekly 2020 · All Rights Reserved