Category: Poetry 4

Rearing Gaze

by ap | Nov 18, 2019 | Issue Four, Michael Rex, Poetry 4, PREE 4 | 0 |

Michael Rex Sweet hairy head top pull out of you into your world And looks at you, And looks like you. Children are always a blessing… And if not to you mama Then to themselves because life simply is without asking...

warrior princess

by ap | Nov 13, 2019 | Highlights 4, Issue Four, Poetry 4, PREE 4, Rhea Manley | 0 |

Rhea Manley you have been reading some things and you are pretty sure you are a feminist. one day you wake up, and shakespearecannot be about juliet anymore.your new tragic heroine is ophelia, or cleopatrayou could...

England, 2013

by ap | Nov 13, 2019 | Highlights 4, Issue Four, Kaleb D’Aguilar, Poetry 4, PREE 4 | 0 |

Kaleb D’Aguilar After a ping we meet below eight by the chapel where white boys sing. Driving Home for Christmassharing memories of the landthe long summersand beautiful springflowers. We lie on...

A Conversation Named For Dragons

by ap | Nov 13, 2019 | Highlights 4, Issue Four, Kwasi Shade, Poetry 4, PREE 4 | 0 |

Kwasi Shade Love was a feeling mischief when you exit; while you talked morse code and I sod to take it “Give me your hands;” I needed therapy I lacked your languid modesty.Drunken monasteries bellowed mefawn in the...

Karst Cruising

by ap | Nov 6, 2019 | Highlights 4, Issue Four, J.A. VIII, Poetry 4, PREE 4 | 0 |

J.A. VIII Green limestone caves, Concealed cruising for runaway gays. After busy days, Driving past fields of phallic sugar cane. Luminous under moonlight, Glistening blue chests under pearled...

Cruising for a Bruising

by ap | Nov 5, 2019 | Adam Patterson, Highlights 4, Poetry 4, PREE 4 | 0 |

Adam Patterson Sailors He sat upon the rolling deck Half a world away from home […] And watched...

Anything But Gay

by ap | Nov 2, 2019 | Issue Four, Juleus Ghunta, Poetry 4, PREE 4 | 0 |

Juleus Ghunta Back then, boys were allowed to be anything but gay. We lost our virginity before we learned to read. When I was 8, I watched older cousins force two 5–year–olds to do it. They opened the girl’s...

Back Words

by ap | Nov 2, 2019 | Poetry 4, PREE 4, Topher Allen | 0 |

Topher Allen At the age of 14, Dwayne ‘Gully Queen’ Jones was forced out of his family home by his father. In 2013, at 16, the young Jamaican was killed by a violent mob in Montego Bay, after he attended...

On the Puerto Rican summer 2019 revolution

by ap | Nov 1, 2019 | Beatriz Llenín-Figueroa, Issue Four, Poetry 4, PREE 4 | 0 |

Beatriz Llenín Figueroa nothing prepares us for joy not for burning, defiant joy whereas every single bludgeoned page of history and every single dispassionate page of ‘political theory’ prepares us for despair,...