Poetry Archives – Meridian

Movement Therapy

Leela SrinivasanMarch 22, 2021March 22, 2021

Soon you’ll see swans turn black with time, how their legs lengthen as their necks shrink.Allow them to trot on a countertop pecking for crumbs. And when you lose the keyto the antique cabinet hidden in your garage, ...

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Sleeping between jobs while working on a degree

Rochelle Robinson-DukesMarch 22, 2021March 22, 2021

My son doesn’t believe that I sleep; he hearsthe computer keys sending Morse Code to my professors;By day he counts in Mandarin: 一 yī, 二 èr, 三 sān, 四 sì, 五 wŭ…at night he listens to me speak to a monitor;the computer screen lights the living roomlike a low hanging...

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Lavender Sequence

Haolun XuMarch 21, 2021March 22, 2021

i.We have misunderstood everything. But not severelyor as a mistake. And now we have gotten away with it.Sometimes, there is no need for consequence. Sometimes it is not up to anyone at all.The fool is making his rounds....

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Glossary for What You Left Unsaid: Loss

Aldo AmparánFebruary 21, 2021March 22, 2021

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Topography

Matthew GellmanFebruary 21, 2021March 22, 2021

There was no making me speak. I was stoic as the horse made of foil on my teacher's shelf. By spring I didn't want to go home most days, so I took the long way across the field and folded the pendulous throats of the first trumpet flowers, eyeing, just...

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The Dream of the Shepherd

Megan PintoFebruary 20, 2021March 22, 2021

You say the Shepherd waits all night for the dream to abate. But how could you know? In the painting He covers his face. Last week, I called to tell you that I wanted to die. This was not the first time. In the Shepherd's dream, the women are cast...