Poetry | The Walrus - Part 8

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Regional Bureaus

Games

A photo of poet Molly Peacock against a red background

December 2021 / Poetry

Today My Task Is the Codicil

November 23, 2021 - by Molly Peacock

I’ve had my pomegranate life. / Seeds sluicing red . . . Rose affection

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Black and white portrait of Kayla Czaga against a green background.

December 2021 / Poetry

Coho

November 18, 2021 - by Kayla Czaga

My father knelt down at the river’s edge / to unhook it. He cupped it in his palms

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Photo illustration of the poet Matt Robinson

November 2021 / Poetry

The Pickup Skater

October 14, 2021 - by Matt Robinson

His passes—those on-ice / em dashes—as silky or fit-to-be-tied as jaunty cravats

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Photo of Terese Mason Pierre

Poetry / September/October 2021

Myth

August 27, 2021 - by Terese Mason Pierre

You’d rather die by myth, / come upon the villains of your / mother’s bedtime stories

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Photo of poet Armand Garnet Ruffo with orange background

July/August 2021 / Poetry

Observed and Observing, That’s Him

July 2, 2021June 29, 2021 - by Armand Garnet Ruffo

From his vantage, he has a bird’s eye view / and he can see they are doing their best / to ignore the dark sky

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