The Art Divas / Divas of Verse

Blog of Rabih Alameddine

Wednesday, June 9, 2021

Asked what it is by Durs Grünbein

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Asked what it is   The huge scar-pocked palm leaf outside the papeterie in Papeete.   The bikini billboard at the bus station of a busy mini...
Tuesday, June 8, 2021

All Along, I Laid, Halved by Ayesha Raees

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All Along, I Laid, Halved   The lake was (all along) a reservoir.                                          My third grade trip was to a dam....
Monday, June 7, 2021

Turning by W. S. Merwin

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Turning   Going too fast for myself I missed more than I think I can remember   almost everything it seems sometimes and yet there are chanc...

Measured by Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon

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Measured   If space makes the pattern, her absence is filling a quota.   The president says,             “we’re a nation of laws” :— The lim...
Saturday, June 5, 2021

A Sympathy, A Welcome by John Berryman

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A Sympathy, A Welcome Feel for your bad fall how could I fail, poor Paul, who had it so good. I can offer you only: this world like a knife....
Friday, June 4, 2021

Self-Care by Solmaz Sharif

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Self-Care Have you tried rose hydrosol? Smoky quartz in a steel bottle   of glacial water? Tincture drawn from the stamens of daylilies grow...

Arcane Torso on Grindr by Tommye Blount

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Arcane Torso on Grindr We cannot know his legendary head, now hidden by a peach. Yet his torso, all ink and Equinox, is backlit from inside ...
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