Poems
“Wallpaper Poem”
“If to dust we return / And we do / Why spend a minute / Choosing wallpaper.”
By Phillis Levin
From “Adam”
Weaving together the Genesis myth, Yoruba culture, and contemporary Black British culture, a young poet explores the haunting reverberations of an unsolved killing with an unidentified victim.
By Gboyega Odubanjo
“Half Hour to Aberdour”
“Late August, your estuary, now / Flattens gray, and the eroded / Pilings stagger from landfall / Like upside-down legs.”
By David Biespiel
“A Big Red Shiny Apple”
“He slowly peeled / off the glossy paper, & he just / held the apple as if it were / golden.”
By Yusef Komunyakaa