Poetry
This is Thin Air Online’s Archive of pieces that are classified as poetry, both long form and short.
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A Poem for What Could Fit in my Pocket by Grace Day-Strosnider
How do I live with your ghost? Dishes in the sink, voices in the walls. This house is not big enough for three. In my defense, his hands. In my defense, his lips. In my defense, his perjury. In my defense, I wish to die so I may come back to you.
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3 Poems by Ashley Kunsa
Standing in the Garden of Myself Where My Lover Misplaced a Rusting Trowel sweet nectar of firebush plumbing the fraudulent ____________________________________this argument from broken deities __________________does it matter? ________________________as light unspools across the thorax of _________________________________________inevitability___________________wading _____course you don’t know me _________________________________________________in this winter-colored dress, my wine-streaked cheeks, their hasty bloom _____________________a zebra longwing…
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RW, #67: Three Years Later, by Orion Redgrave
“there is no shape he wants to occupy more than his own, the shape he once held…”
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3 Poems by John Findura
YOU HAVE ALREADY BEEN BURIED AND I DID NOT KNOW YOU WERE DEAD I don’t remember if we had been playing cards but once we sat at your parents’ kitchen table and sometime during that night you told me about your sister in the Florida hospital none of us knew you had a sister We…
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Voyager 1 Meets God; by Jessica Kanzler
After home I have seen light. And I have drifted unmoving through an emptiness That never saw me, small beneath spheres colossal casting shadows infinitesimal in the lit wake of titans. I am here to watch and to understand, and here is never the same. I am out, alone, the first to find what has…
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Tricky Wash; by Matthew Johnstone
People called coyotes will take you across, highways will have roses to stray the…
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Adjustment by Natalie Rose
adjustment* noun ad·just·ment \ə-ˈjəs(t)-mənt\ : a change that makes it possible for a person to do better or work better in a new situation After living in big cities on the east and west coast, and even in that Jackson Pollack-esque splatter of freeways and tract houses two hours south of here, Flagstaff can sometimes…
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I. Instructions for Finding a Detachable Set of Invisible Wings
I. Instructions for Finding a Detachable Set of Invisible Wings by Jen Karetnick Jen Karetnick is the author of three full-length books of poetry, two forthcoming, and four chapbooks of poetry. Her work has appeared in publications including Cimarron Review, december, North American Review, Poet’s Market 2013, Poets & Writers, Spillway, Submittable.com and Valparaiso Poetry…
