Book Review: The Smallest of Bones by Holly Lyn Walrath

Scintillating and powerfully evocative, this is a strange and curious volume of speculative poetry that definitely deserves a space on your shelf.

Poem: beauty & beast

a poetic retelling of an age-old faerytale, with a twist.

a short poem inspired by the video game Transistor

the snow queen’s jewelled sledge /sparkles/ in the faraway dark snow.

The sun hangs low /Like a ripe pomegranate/ We play in the dust/Among the maple/ Till the moon swallows us up

season of rain a world of stuttering streetlamps, sinking paper- boats & swirling water, you were born into. shadows possessed … More

birds and hearts have fallen silent;

i. and spring came tumbling from a hope-shaped crack in the sky, a naked falling icarus melting, the ancient snow … More

Paresh Tiwari’s latest collection of haibun and hybrid poems is evocative, exquisite and melancholic.

1. beginnings are quiet things, hastily wrapped & orphaned at your doorstep in the dreamy light of midnight. they come … More