Literati Magazine

IN ANSWER TO HIS QUESTION

By Paul Brookes

(i)

ESKINDER NEGA, FREED AFTER ALMOST SEVEN YEARS IN ETHIOPIAN PRISON

FINDING YOUR VOICE

By Mike Essig

for Elizabeth Bishop

PEN America Honor Imprisoned Myanmar Journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo.

Albatross

In my kitchen you
picked up my favorite things, the floral patterned China
The gold-rimmed cups
The pieces of lace, you
put them in your…

Missing

They keep asking if I 
 miss the mountain 
and I don't.

A Nation Is

a maze an alley end
closet boarded up
dumpster chapel schoolroom
kitchen of the pauper 
field of poppies the inside 
of a papal hat attic…