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"Upon my naked knee rests a curious little creature pastel green unnumbered legs eyes of a thousand portals no bigger than my thumbnail and he is dancing dancing smooth dancing slow dancing tango?" Microcosmos by LUKE SHUFFIELD picciolettabarca.com/posts/microcos…

They tell me few sights are as welcome/as the milk sweet carpet of early snowdrops/on the lawns of the Regency squares . . . . Congratulations to Lit Fest alum @hannahsweber for publishing "The Romance of Plant Life" @lpbmagazine. Read Hannah's poem at picciolettabarca.com/posts/the-roma…

"Again and again, like any other day, people wake up and go about their business and look at the world around them, seeing for the nth time, the same others." The Third Largest Blast by KARL EL SOKHN #WritingCommunity #poetrycommunity picciolettabarca.com/posts/the-thir…

I am a tub of gunpowder doused in gasoline                        flaming alight, raging high,                        ( b u r n i n g  o u t )                        and you could have followed me Wax wings by MAIA BROWN-JACKSON picciolettabarca.com/posts/wax-wings

"Ensam            en-sum Start saying the word ‘enjoy’, but stop yourself after ‘en’. Instead of puckering your lips for a‘j’, as if you’re about to kiss your child" Swedish pronunciation: lesson 1 by REBECCA ZÄTTERSTRÖM picciolettabarca.com/posts/swedish-…

"earlier dark     formed up behind winter is so similar but isn’t you more hastily collapsing white     more like the museum’s marble steps steps you can’t come down" Anniversary Snow by Yang Lian (transl. BRIAN HOLTON) picciolettabarca.com/posts/aniversa…

Thank you La Piccioletta Barca for featuring one of my poems

"her mother’s mother’s mother’s resentful silence. Perfect poisoned pearls, handed to her, one for each forgotten last name." Pearls by IRINA HRINOSCHI picciolettabarca.com/posts/pearls

Excited to have a short piece up with La Piccioletta Barca There are giant brushes of Toe toe whose sublime softness whispers into your palm. There’s the way a white goose’s feather both holds a secret and tickles your nose. picciolettabarca.com/posts/apartmen…

"It was a windy day, the sort of day where you smell winter in the air, and out of something like animal habit, instead of continuing just a few more feet on Orange and hanging left, I cut across maybe 5 or 6 feet of someone’s lawn." Yards by DAVID CAPPS picciolettabarca.com/posts/yards

A new piece of mine, Shadows and Wings, is out now in La Piccioletta Barca . Shadows, softness, the in-between. Hope you’ll read. 🌫️ picciolettabarca.com/posts/shadows-… #shortfiction #literarymagazine #publishedwriting

"A child fell into a pond while the grown-ups drank martinis. Brutal scene minutes later." Brutalism by BRIAN JOHNSON picciolettabarca.com/posts/brutalism

"It was a treeless world of weather-swept wilds in Snowdonia around my birth, bare as if giants had forever kept smoothing out every slanting slope of earth;" Barrenness by T.H. Parry-Williams (transl. A. Z. FOREMAN) picciolettabarca.com/posts/barrenne…

"D. had sensed that the monk would talk to her even before he approached. She couldn’t explain why. The encounter felt inevitable even before it happened..." Where You Need to Go by JIMIN KANG picciolettabarca.com/posts/where-yo…

"there are so many lonely people who seem to have lost pieces of themselves there are so many pieces of people who are no longer themselves" The Dead Horsies by Antoine Mouton (#translation by EPONINE HOWARTH) Éditions Bourgois picciolettabarca.com/posts/the-dead…

"D. had sensed that the monk would talk to her even before he approached. She couldn’t explain why." Where You Need to Go by JIMIN KANG picciolettabarca.com/posts/where-yo…

"Writing about the essay is to suit up with teams of the likeminded who, alert to extant views on a subject, reassess or contextualize afresh conclusions from a prior age." The Essay—An Unprescribable Form by THOMAS LARSON picciolettabarca.com/posts/the-essa…

"I demarcate zones, trace squares, rectangles in the sky. Sometimes I sweep through the space in rows, in successive straight lines, slowly, until every surface is covered." A square of dust by Olivia Tapiero (#translation EPONINE HOWARTH) picciolettabarca.com/posts/a-square…

"To think in music, the tonalities and harmonies issuing from instruments, takes the musician’s consciousness into the centrality of notes ..." Radical Engagement: exploring the presence of music in Mike Kelley’s Riddle of the Sphinx by RUSSELL CARMONY picciolettabarca.com/posts/radical-…