New Poems in the Nest by Carlie Hoffman
“the voice is speaking, though only the wind / motions toward me.”
From New World
“I plant a tree with the certainty my brother will reemerge from beneath the sea— / How many metaphors less damaging for escaping?”
From Myth of Icarus as Girl, Leaving
New Poems in the Nest
“"i let it drown, you know. sometimes / i don’t care what the ringing / means.” from “#17”
By ceara margaret hennessey
“"kissing those tender-most junctures— / the ones implying permanence.” from “our moment under the sun” By Kelsey L. Smoot
New Poems in the Nest
”plastic bags about to burst with empty / bottles and recyclables. / I think of my mother as a child.”
from “What One Does for a Living” By Lorenzo
“Have you ever pulled into the driveway / of a waiting house? An entire house waiting for you?”
from “Location, location, location” By Maria Santa Poggi
Read both poems here.
New Poems in the Nest
“I’ve sat still, hunched / my nails like / animal deep ragged moons..”
from “Swamp Molly”
“Lately, I’ve been feeling like Jesus’s sister. / Who knew that Jesus even had a sister?"
from “Driving Poem”
New Poems in the Nest by Katey Funderburgh
“I have tried / to be good. Pour the wine, wash the sand / from my calves." From “Balm”
“love will play out like rainwater / along the gutters of our street damning / the leaves in their river.” From “November has September hands”