re:Virals 546
Uma Padmanabhan - loosening the strings: commentaries on " puppet theater/someone calls me by/my childhood nickname" by Cezar Ciobica
Uma Padmanabhan - loosening the strings: commentaries on " puppet theater/someone calls me by/my childhood nickname" by Cezar Ciobica
Jonathan Epstein — listen to the grace notes: comments on "memorial bench. . . / she shares her chit-chat / with the pigeons" by Annie Wilson
Supplementary essay by Orense Nicod based on this week's verse: "Show me the sutra / In which the Buddha praises / The colors of beer." by Barry Foy
Dan Campbell—wisdom without ceremony, with a smile: commentaries on "Show me the sutra / In which the Buddha praises / The colors of beer." by Barry Foy
Ashoka Weerakkody —haunting us in cyberspace: commentaries on "the box to check / that I'm not a robot— / winter rain by Cherie Hunter Day
Orense Nicod—an embodied sense of duration: commentaries on "still attached / to the old days / a watch on a chain" by Ernest Wit
Sean Murphy—listening to the whales: commentaries on "whale songs . . . / when did we stop / talking" by Bud Cole
Orense Nicod—not knowing the answers: commentaries on "my wife left me / does this heavy rain at dusk / fall where she is" by Jerry Gill
Richard Straw—isn’t a poem itself a song? Commentaries on "Grasshoppers… / I can’t run or jump / anymore" by Satoru Kanematsu
Urszula Marciniak —learning a new language: commentaries on "distant stars— / the refugee mother rewrites / her lullaby by Hifsa Ashraf
Sudha Devi Nayak—an evocative medley: commentaries on "low slung sky / the rain hanging / by a hundred prayers" by Anju Kishore
Shalini Pattabiraman and language games: commentaries on "her child answers / in the nanny's tongue / end of summer" by Roland Packer
Urzula Marciniak—to understand the world by giving names: commentaries on "first petrichor after learning the word petrichor" by Saumya Bansal
Sean Murphy—the tone of the piece: commentaries on "a bit of Mozart / among beeps and buzzes / of the MRI" by Tim Dwyer
Dan Campbell -- a garland of blooms commentaries on: prom queent/the short reign/of primrose
Jonathan Epstein—feeling calm and centered: commentaries on "cousins' meet-up— / getting used to being / the older generation" by Maeve O'Sullivan
Carol Reynolds - hidden gems: commentaries on "waves unearthing shells / deeply buried in the sand— / those words left unsaid" by Alvin B. Cruz
Urszula Marciniak—to the unexplored realms: commentaries on "march winds / the chaotic sound / of wind chimes" by Linda L. Ludwig
Kay Schwartz—a poignant mystery: commentaries on "lost dog / I leave my voice / in every street" by Maduri Pillai