Poetry
This is Thin Air Online’s Archive of pieces that are classified as poetry, both long form and short.
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Amateur Icarus by Marcus Goodyear
Amateur Icarus by Marcus Goodyear The moon is a glowing white ear, passing between gingerbread houses where wasps build their paper hexes. You are not here so it can’t be changing for us, this celestial cochlea and canal trained at the earth teaching me to listen when your phone rings and rings its robotic…
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Volunteer Opportunity by Liz Drayer
Volunteer Opportunity by Liz Drayer We’re so thrilled you’ve offered to donate your time to our cause and know how you value the privilege to serve The police background check is just part of the process please visit your neighborhood sheriff who’ll make sure you’re felony free and that “sexual predator” isn’t a suffix attached to…
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Battery Life by Daniel Schwartz
Battery Life by Daniel Schwartz “Much we have to fear, big-mouth beside me!” —Osip Mandelstam This could be any era, and by any I mean none of them swept under the loss that was our decade we remember the sky’s oldest quotation marks and the weeks of holding our breath to keep other people from…
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FROM “1930-1963-1984” by Ginger Ko
BY GINGER KO American-born but always remembered: woman and not white when I put jade against my body it’s suffocating ***
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MODERN WARFARE by Kate Rosenberg
BY KATE ROSENBERG
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PURR by Kevin Carollo
BY KEVIN CAROLLO Sonic equivalent of fur. The body traps its dud bomb and disperses the tender udder thunder. A chair and a tree are
