Envision Scarlett Johansson’s disheveled blonde
in Vicky Cristina Barcelona
going in for that girl-on-girl kiss
ensconced in the reddish amber glow of the dark room.
Envision Scarlett Johansson’s disheveled blonde
in Vicky Cristina Barcelona
going in for that girl-on-girl kiss
ensconced in the reddish amber glow of the dark room.
Sweating drummers
Growing so wild
Anxious crowds
Expanding like ringworm
We are proud to present three poems from Romanian-born poet Claudia Serea’s The System, a cycle of poems inspired by her father’s experiences as a political prisoner in Communist Romania, which will be published by Cold Hub Press later this year
She cried as her uterus weeps
crimson tears of longing to be needed
confronting the fear that her ovaries have withered
unplucked grapes desiccated on a fallopian vine.
these stained
and weathered
pages destroy
every misgiving
every sadness
and every anger
clouding this
reader’s mind
in the mystery of
each yellowed
passage