In this episode of The Common’s Contributors in Conversation podcast, Issue 06 contributors Oliver de la Paz and L. S. Klatt read and discuss their poems “Labyrinth 76” and “Apple.”
ARIELLE HEBERT
Home again at the water’s edge, /
palms dancing in salt breeze. /
I take a too-deep breath /
and the air prickles my lungs /
like an unfiltered cigarette. /
Only the tourists are swimming, /
coughing through the algal bloom, /
eyes bloodshot and skin burning.
A. J. BERMUDEZ
A. J. Bermudez speaks to Emily Everett about her story “The Sixteenth Brother,” which appears in The Common’s fall issue.
DANIEL TOBIN
No kindred of an earth, it must stalk alone, / or scavenge what the visitants leave behind. // or bird’s eggs, rabbits, the odd neighborhood / cat wandered over from some nearby home. / Its tail affects the lilt of a semaphore; its pelt // a finish of rust in sunlight.
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