Emerge Literary Journal, Issue 16

Thanks to a poetry workshop last August which examined the poetry of Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu, I’ve been playing around with short forms. In the current world of prose poems, free verse, lyric essays and long poems, I wasn’t sure if there was room for small quiet pieces. I’m slowly learning that there’s a place for everything. Two little poems (6 lines each) found a home at Emerge Literary Journal.

Read “the sun is alone” and “consider the word pare” here.

consider the word pare

which is a knife

Peeling away the unneeded

“consider the word pare” - Emerge Literary Journal, Issue 16