The Carer
The Carer is a poem by Robert Frede Kenter responding to the idea of 'sacrifice'. It features in Erato Magazine's Issue II: Sacrifice
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Tyler Jones
- Dec 5, 2022
- 1 min
For What It’s Worth
'For What It's Worth' by Tyler Jones examines the theme of 'Sacrifice'
Ariane Lauren
- Dec 5, 2022
- 2 min
Gravity
by Ariane Lauren Not considering consoling me on the sofa, you sit shaken, slumped at your desk. Cradling your head, mumbling, informing...
Alorah Welti
- Dec 5, 2022
- 1 min
Eve Climbs Inside Adam to Know the Truth of Things
'Eve Climbs Inside Adam to Know the Truth of Things' is a poem by Alorah Welti.
Charlie Bowden
- Dec 5, 2022
- 1 min
Venus Cannot Fly, She's Trapped
'Venus Cannot FLy, She's Trapped' is a poem by Charlie Bowden.
Hesse Phillips
- Nov 28, 2022
- 2 min
October 2003
'October' deals with sacrifice in terms of grief, loss of a loved one, innocence, and life.
Written by Phillips in memory of Dave Pierce.
Becca Fang
- Nov 28, 2022
- 1 min
The Morning After
"This poem explores the little things we sacrifice to please or impress the people we are intimate with, to the detriment of ourselves."
Keira Armstrong
- Nov 21, 2022
- 1 min
Sacrificial Lamb
"in the grip of bleach cream hands,
i let my head sink into my father's waist.
the sinews of my neck splinter
under the squeeze of gravity"
Andrea Gerada
- Nov 21, 2022
- 1 min
Iphigenia
"Iphigenia" by Andrea Gerada speaks to the penance daughters pay under angry fathers.
Sharon Pan
- Sep 16, 2022
- 1 min
fireworks mark doomsday
my eardrums
pop and explode
at the sound of fireworks crackling
in the night sky, black canvas
with inky white stars that pulse
with light
Anna Wythe
- Sep 12, 2022
- 1 min
Exquisite Hunger
"These thoughts came together when I encountered the paper dragons. They seemed like a much better use of paper than the poems I was writing
Anna Wythe
- Sep 12, 2022
- 1 min
My Friend
my friend writes snow falling into photographs
my friend writes ‘the death of Walter Benjamin’
Anna Wythe
- Sep 12, 2022
- 1 min
Exegesis
This poem came out of an encounter, a walk with a near-stranger by the Willamette River.
Joe Pickard
- Sep 12, 2022
- 1 min
Waiting for the Surf
'Your body slipping between waves
reminds me of absence between years
and how it dips with force pushing,
pulling back and forth'
Joe Pickard
- Sep 12, 2022
- 1 min
Stigmata
'To suffer your stigmata
at the kitchen sink
is to know you.'
Milly Butler
- Sep 12, 2022
- 1 min
Out Of Time
If I could begin again
l'd abstain from prodding the hourglass,
and addle the ache to gutter the sand faster.
Maya Walker
- Sep 12, 2022
- 1 min
Love Is A Learned Behavior
By Maya Walker like the dripping wax of an almost burned out candle, like a reel of film slowly, slowly, slowly passing through time,...
Willow Kang Liew Bei
- Sep 11, 2022
- 1 min
Twin Embers
"Twins lay in the cold earth’s embrace,
each suckling from the same primordial vein"
Willow Kang Liew Bei
- Sep 11, 2022
- 1 min
Burning Letters in August
"Let the chill of the unfurling air linger
in withering bones."
Jerome Berglund
- Sep 3, 2022
- 2 min
Three Haigas by Berglund
Three photography-haiku hybrids by Jerome William Berglund.
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