Poetry
This is Thin Air Online’s Archive of pieces that are classified as poetry, both long form and short.
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Socotra by Brandon Marlon
Dragon’s blood tree boughs stretch upwards from a grove in the limestone plain, well within view of red granite peaks whitened by lichen and towering above snails, beetles, lizards, and freshwater crabs, endemic denizens of an archipelago isolated in space and time. While monsoon winds reshape dunes, islanders trudge past the fuchsia desert rose whose…
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Driving to Colorado by Elias Sorich
Driving to Colorado Clouds draped down a bare field, trails of mist sloping, stingers of a jellyfish.
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Three Poems by Richard Dinges, Jr.
Sun Returns After gray cloudySkies drape too manydays, stark nude treesstrike harsh cracks intosnow that glistenshills under sun’sreturn. We had faithit would. Still itblinds, a surprise,and a disappointment,when cold remainsfogged by our ownbreathy clouds. Walk in the Field Gnarled shatteredtrees tangle brownunshorn prairiegrass. Wrapped arounda dark rustedmilk can riddledwith bullet holes,brush lines earth’scurve, horizondrawn in…
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Five Poems by Sandeep Kumar Mishra
In upper part of my body A cognitive bell rings From a dial-up connection of live wires; The modem is working JUST
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i sprint through the dark, evading by Peter Patapis
i/ i sprint through dusk, evading the neon pink pistol
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Greyhound by James Croal Jackson
Greyhound is what we call grapefruit juice club soda and vodka. Also the name of a wolf and inefficient bus. There is where you told
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Engineering/Coast by Leath Tonino
Engineering I have a friend who likes bridges, in them sees the genius of design. Me, I prefer waves and the crossing paths of birds
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Three Poems by Savannah Slone
Field Notes on Becoming Yourself pluck fallopian foxgloves from your diseased roots egg trek cardiac harvest wear insects as rings, arthropod legs caging each digit around your neck, trilobites rusty toenails scratch off achilles blisters stack blocks with your beet stained gums pick suckers from your armpits swallow them whole: deer ticks, your aphrodisiac palpitate your inner…
