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The Garden of Dutiful Women

Blossom Thom

    Stardust and Moonlight: A Love Poem Beaches built of melted Sun. Iridescent air Lavender thoughts sprinkle Yearning on sun-whipped skin Oceans shout to the shore, “I will sing to you of love.” Waves recede with a kiss.   […]


Dhrupad of Destruction

Savitri Sawhney

  Dhrupad of Destruction I see Nataraja dancing on a lofty hill, to the sound of crushing ice, Melting glaciers and rising seas. Primordial forces unleashed. From the dark corners of the earth, I hear the eternal rumble of Chaos […]


Moment, arriving

Paris Elizabeth Sea

  Eocene Time of rising temperatures the dawn horse gallops on primitive hooves greeting the day’s heat with hunger and teeth grinding small-brained toward longer-limbed progeny expanding onto the first grassy plains no mountains to snow on but coming on […]


Dusk On Loukes Lake

Guy Sprung

Dusk On Loukes Lake (for Kathleen) thin spirits of mist rise immobile on a lake flooded to ice by the calm water bugs skate in circles to a waltz of their own signature my canoe glides on the echoes of […]


The Shape of Yearning

Gina Roitman

    Call of the Loon Come back. It’s cold here without you. When I bend my neck to drink there is no reflection in the water. Come back to the wild. When I call your name it ricochets off […]


The Problem of Joy

Louise Carson

    Mitochondrial Eve A plague of poppies: salmon, tomato, apricot. Some years I save the seeds, audible in upright cups, and carry them, carefully, to make two lemon cakes, eat all those flowers. Flowers that are as famous as […]


Touching on Tangents

Paris Elizabeth Sea

  Turbulence it’s not the breath, in or out not quite breath’s only the boundary sneaks past smooth ebbs on laminar silent it’s where streamlines retch mouth shot off with plosives, or trills eddying deep into passionate night where breath […]


Gratia Plena: An essay on dementia and love

Brenda Linn

  I I find her hunched in her chair a wizened crow wrapped in a food-smeared bib porridge drying on her mouth and chin. Her hands are bony and translucent and her nails curl back on themselves like talons. She […]


Cardinal Flower

Mary Dean Lee

  Cardinal Flower Red flash— a few sprigs puncture the monotony of brown-green bog, never-ending evergreens and skeletons of cedar. I know you, skulking in the wetlands between bridge and dam, around the island, beneath the boulder’s shoulder, under jack […]


Art’s Longing, Medicine’s Ways

Cyril Dabydeen

  ODE TO HIPPOCRATES Who’s Hippocrates, I know, in Crete or someplace else – calling out to the Sirens, the Sea’s own and asking you for healing ways, the mind or spirit’s, not the body’s own. Oh, the body, and […]


Snow Is Falling

Dinh Le Doan

  Snow Is Falling Snow is falling. The earth turns white. Its new skin is as smooth as silk. The sun hides behind a veil. I stay confined inside my shelter while the cedars run between the houses and collect […]


Summernote V, Chernobyl, and Totenwald

Ilona Martonfi

    Summernote V Call her goddess of heath and yellow gorse. Tell her you have left the moon unlit. Snuggled into its folds. Swamp-fed forest creeks. Grafted to fen carr, sedge grasses. Dwarf blackberries. See if she believes you. […]


Cheeky Mathematics

Maya Khankhoje

    Cheeky Mathematics He and she fuse their cells with the sticky glue of their warm juices Two cells become one which then divides and multiplies until one plus one adds up to ten perfect little toes Baby trades […]


A Post-Modern Hell

Jan Jorgensen

    1. Circumstance and sorrow had aged me by the time I found my way into the fire-blighted wood scorched by flames rising up from an earth ravaged by explorations for oil, its water table plundered relentlessly by impulses […]


Because I am my own

Dipti Gupta

    I am nobody else’s version of who I am You cannot set your mind based on my looks alone There is no language that defines me Do not box me in Because I am my own I choose not to be enslaved […]


A Breaking Open of the Belly

David Groulx

  We are still here Aimé, us the niggers of the north An otherness-nothingness imprisoned in our minds by our colour   I have heard of white writers who claim to be bush niggers they live outside the high prison […]


Voices Unsilenced

Ilona Martonfi

    Seven Mountains For my maternal grandmother   That moment when you see spring on your windowsill you have lost your sister, ceramic pot yellow daffodils, nodding buds. Wilted petals. Ruffled trumpet. Shriveled and fading that moment when news […]


Opening Speech

Deanna Smith

sometimes I dream that speaking Hausa would make me feel better


Upward Spiral

Maya Khamala

In the rich dread of my predecessors.


They don’t like us much

Louise Carson

No women here. No women at all.


My Grandmother’s Recipe

Greg Santos

Tata worked as a waitress at her family's restaurant by the beach.


Evening, and Cloudburst above the lake

Dinh Le Doan

And the ducks give up their dabbling at the lily patch


Borderlands and other poems

Ilona Martonfi

loops of razor wire fences


Man on a Rocking Chair in San Juan & I Shot a .38

Rana Bose

Man on a Rocking Chair in San Juan   In San Juan I found a man rocking on his balcony, the floors creaking, the glaze in the gaze, a daffodil stem hanging from his lips. I asked him was he […]


You & another poem

Saswata Sen

      You will be the midwife To whatever little I have, You will be the midwife To what little miseries I cherish You will be the mast To my lost catamaran You will be the frozen froth of […]


Quartet, Blood and Dead Woman’s Daughter

Nada El-Omari

I shot myself But I can’t seem to recall how it felt


American Honey & other poems

Andrés Castro

Harsh, but stay with me.


Dedication to Dr. Abby Lippman

Abby Lippman

    This issue is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Abby Lippman (1939-2017). “As we were preparing to go on-line with this issue, we were hit with an emotional sledgehammer.  Abby Lippman – a frequent contributor to Serai, a dear […]


Red on Red

Cora Siré

  After Mark Rothko’s Untitled (Red on Red), 1969 Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Peace Pavilion  


Musée Rodin, 1972 & The Blinds

James Olwell

  Musée Rodin, 1972 I saw this body I am sure of it. Flesh and bronze. In one long stare, In fixated, circular study, In love with this thoracic cage, Vertical breakline, rack Of ribs, sinews strong, Tying life and […]


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