Richard Schnap - One Poem
Ghost City The bus grumbles pastA tired old manCoughing dim memoriesAs the passengers look outPhotos of the missingWaiting to be foundIn a rusty landscapeOf vacant lots and weedsA chain-linked...
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Content to CircleIncarceration in a watery globe,her world circumscribed by interminable circlesstarting where there is no end andending where there are no beginnings.Navigator of endless glass walls,...
View ArticleBen Newell - One Poem
Kills Roaches Deadwhen I was a young writer I used to read my work to friends and family with favorable responsenow I realize they were just being niceas even thinking about those pieces is so...
View ArticleKristina England - One Poem
Grief RevisitedFunny how the car smelled of exhaust,how your eyes fluttered into a dream.Funny how those fumes filled upthe chambers of your heart,and how your last breath stuckto the glass when I...
View ArticleJ.J. Campbell - One Poem
A Downtown Revivalthe crunch of guitarsfill the air as the suncracks through somethinning cloudsthe rain held off andmade for two gloriousdays in a downtownlong since forgotteni would find myselfunder...
View ArticleBrian Robert Kenney - Two Poems
Tectonicsthe clay pushed its way outthrough the cracksbetween his tremblingfingers locked in frustration at his lackof skill of patience of newideas holed up in his little roomcreating and destroyinga...
View ArticleRobert Wexelblatt - One Poem
Concertothe hero clamors against the mob, square peg defying round holesdiscord out of one and many,concord from many and onea child noisily rebels andthe adults play alongone rejoices to lead the...
View ArticleRoss Vassilev - One Poem
Lovelessnothing to do and nowhere to gowhile the white cloudsdance circles in the skyand maybe the sunlight falling on the red bricksis trying to tell me somethingabout the passage of timeor maybe the...
View ArticleLisa Pelligrini - Two Poems
Amber PremonitionsBloody pieces of yesterdaypick me up,shaking off shardsof demons draped inamber premonitions.Jumbles of colors wraparound each otherto create rubber bandballs thatstretchnerves.I...
View ArticleH.E. Mantel - Two Poems
Octaobtaneous(ex oficio ex pede Herculean)Sabado the dayof wrest… boulevards of theroad sparkspangle likea dim victory paradevoicers upped like the balloons& hoods like hungryjaws of debt...
View ArticleSy Roth - Four Poems
No Wordswe walkedstretched mileswithout words.when I tiredhe dragged.when I sat mulelikehe glowered.he did not tell me wherewe were going inthose endless miles,interminable minutes.his face readneedand...
View ArticleAllison Grayhurst - Three Poems
Gone BlindGone blind downthe road that leads toserenity. Cannot findthe open casket of myawakening or the joy of exile.Damned and committing tothe poorest of temples –ruby like a miscarriage,like a red...
View ArticleErren Geraud Kelly - One Poem
The Song of the SirenWhen miles blew his wretched hornLittle did he knowHis trumpet’s wailWould be the call ofThe sirenTrees would break outWith your poetryRivers would change theirCourse, so that...
View ArticleTito Kohout - Three Poems
IcarusIcarus flutters and falls to the waveswhich embrace him and rock him to sleep in their holdbut never will honor his dark unmarked grave.His children, unborn, would prepare him a cavein a...
View ArticleMark Leci - Four Poems
Typosomewhere in this layeredcubist collage of touchit is possibleif one peers from the right angleto separatethree bodiespry apart the tessellating edges -divide this flesh into separate formsbut for...
View ArticleRon Riekki - Two Poems
Reap IDeath is a little bit confused today.It’s a little bit early for confusionconsidering He knows the future,but He puts down his head to think.“Death,” I say, for if I could keepfrom being dug...
View ArticleDonal Mahoney - One Poem
Caseworker: Yams and Plantain Cabrini-Green The Housing Project Summer in ChicagoBienvenido’s comin’ over,says his wife,to ‘splain mewhy the kidshave got no rice,no beans,how the...
View ArticleEdward Alexander - One Poem
By GraceThe breath by gracedrawn downthrough the wind,continuous the movement.A baby born newheld swaddled in a lovingmothers gentle embrace.Or perhaps it was harderthan thatand you were the onedropped...
View ArticleWanda Morrow Clevenger - Two Poems
Circus FlaminiusNot even Moses wrote the sin of Eve;anonymous producta 5th century wag of unjust finger, andthe brethren shout hallelujah atSodom and Gomorrah virgin sacrifice.Now new charlatans circle...
View ArticleClyde L. Borg - One Poem
The Good Old YoungThey hold on to lifeLike some leaves tend to doOn winter deadened treesThat once wereSplendidly green.They resist the icinessOf the gray winterBy feigning warmthIn gloved hands,And...
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