Poetry

If you’re thinking about writing a love poem for your significant other, the Clog has some tips to make sure you don’t end up writing a cheesy love poem.

Her life is a psychedelic movie /But I’m watching it sober / Let it be over / I clearly can’t do main character.

Choi’s most recent book introduces apocalypse as a chemical catalyst, fueling her interrogations of what it means to witness the world’s incessant sequence of catastrophe.

I wonder where the time went / I peruse old photo books, flip through pages / Falling in love while falling out of love / Watching elevator doors go blurry.

You stopped playing / Go back / Give me the nocturne in the dusky air. / Come closer / The earth wants immensely to know you / Begged me to introduce / You.

I have recently rediscovered my copy of Yeats' collected poems. I felt compelled to respond to the poem again now, years later, without peeking at my previous attempt.

Inspired by Italo Calvino’s “The Castle of Crossed Destinies,” seven of the Weekender’s staffers came together to write short pieces based on the same set of five tarot cards.