Tuesday poem #628 : Sean Howard : Poems (lifted from the Manchester Guardian, October 6, 1913)

 

ALBANIANS DRIVEN OUT OF SERVIA
Forty Executions – Including a Boy

ARTILLERY IN AN AEROPLANE
Target Practice in France

SPECTATOR CARRIED OFF BY A BALLOON

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Modern war, driven stakes… Man & boy, the porous b-
order? (Skim reading: from on high, territory as
map.) Safe below? The suddenly inflating
spectacles…

 

 

 

 

Sean Howard is the author of seven collections of poetry, most recently Overlays: Scored Poems (Gaspereau Press, 2025). His poetry has been widely published in Canada, the US, UK, and elsewhere, and featured in The Best of the Best Canadian Poetry in English (Tightrope Books, 2017).

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Tuesday poem #627 : Siân Killingsworth : Severed Connection

 

 

I have never met the people I see every day.
On the white shelf behind my head
in the Zoom square grows beautiful green moss.
I could shave it off with even a butter knife. Eat
the moss, dream the greenness.

My brain is in a mood to tell me bad stories.
She’s hot and mean, filling me with dread
of failure, dread of people close to me
and it’s hard to breathe. I can’t listen.

Look at the desk, multiple screens. I’m feeling
my hands, sweat-damp lines, trace of oily lotion,
rings too tight from too much salt,
switch to a razor. Cut through the fog
of brain-lies and let in screeching light.
What I could have been without this.

 

 

 

Siân Killingsworth is the author of Hiraeth (Longship Press, 2024). She has been published in Columbia Poetry Review, Roi Fainéant Press, Stonecoast Review, Glass: A Journal of Poetry (Poets Resist), and elsewhere, including When There Are Nine, a Ruth Bader Ginsburg tribute anthology. Siân is the Social Media Manager for the Rise Up Review. She holds an MFA from The New School.

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Tuesday poem #626 : Larkin M. Higgins : something approximately akin to gliding through

 

 

body of
             & in water
this seaweed                     
                          its stipe & blades
                                                  undulating thallus
amber gloss teardrops
                                    as teeny bulbous floats
air-filled
                 corporeal buoyancy 

 

fronds plait
                     swimmer’s unfurling hair
waves’ surges
                            meld the curling
                                                            jewel-ing her
                                                                                  

                                              holdfast

motion’s murmur
                               & crash
e/motion’s
                    intermittent  spray
ocean froth
                           ascends across rocks

                                                             mist/y

 

 

Larkin M. Higgins is a poet, artist, & professor emerita whose poetic & hybrid works can be found in Diagram, Notre Dame Review, Chant de la Sirène The Journal, Otoliths, elsewhere. Mindmade Books published her Of Traverse and Template (poems and logographic drawings) & with Dusie Kollektiv she has two chapbooks, Of Materials, Implements and c o m b - i n g  m i n e - i n g s . Higgins’ visual poetry is included in the Avant Writing Collection/The Ohio State University Libraries & has been exhibited at Counterpath Gallery (Denver), Otis College of Art & Design, others. She created text-driven performance art for venues such as Highways Performance Space, Counterpath, BC Space, more.

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