Kislay Chauhan - Five Poems
Afternoon Desert Tides in absorbed sunlight, dry sand desertWhitish glare, seeking mirror boatsWhere time is dried, moments sweatMusic in flames, days on the rootsDewdrops of morning search shadowWhere...
View ArticleRyan Quinn Flanagan - Two Poems
The Phone Cord from The Wall is a Twisting Snake of WonderIt has been very quiet, of late,the brown bag wisdom of half-eaten sandwiches,much dish soap on the window sill without comment,me, sitting...
View ArticleRichard Schnap - One Poem
Black VinylHe believed that churches should all be burned downAnd women were either stupid or meanAs he filled his loft with a thousand recordingsOf punk rock idols who had early deathsBut when he...
View ArticleJohn Harper - Two Poems
Joyous Rangenow among a questioni can’t ask,and in seeming more so than waiting,there’s something largerinside this being, getting nearer—softly let it ask of me, then,conflagration angel—whom i...
View ArticleMatthew Wilson - One Poem
Apollo's Kin Stars are the sun's stubborn childrenthat broke off piece by pieceburning up too fastin their quest to be independent.Some will lose their way among the angry...
View ArticleJohn W. Sexton - Four Poems
Corrugated Skygold-winged Garuda ...thy lime droppingssterilize the heavensclinker accumulatesthe length of his throatgrey hoarse cumulousfingernails hammered black …the corrugated skyrattles downHouse...
View ArticleJean Amery - One Poem
Speak, Write Say, Hope, Do, Move.Speak, write say, hope, do, move.Say there is still something left to fight for.Write these few lines a sad tribute.Hope that every second I've spent has not been in...
View ArticleL. L. Kelly - One Poem
Stark Reality Unfair,the memory ofyour impatiencewith the grim reapersplattered on the stair way.New paint and carpetis no disguise forsuch a desperate act.Etiquette dictateswe must wait our...
View ArticleRobert P. Hansen - Three Poems
Auschwitz, 1945*The midnight mass-Acre of five thousandCandles wrought from theChangeless essence of Descartes’Wax, a fitting tributeTo the unnumbered deadLayered in ash and dust.My lips seek words...
View ArticleL. Kinney - Two Poem
Classical SplatterpostRelative antiquity.Starbust inanimatejoyfully in the third degree.All over the walls,a child covering the hallswith a matchbook crayon.Red in color,black in sight,just like a...
View ArticleHolly Day - Three Poems
Words of Wisdom Concerning WaterYou can never see your reflection in water pooled in the palmsOf your own hands. Try it. It’s impossible. I thinkYour hands would have to be deep as oceans and wide as...
View ArticleBruce Edward Litton - Two Poems
Remembering Fahrenheit 451Coldest depths of space,Remote and weightless darkness,Void between relationsSurrendered to indirection—No fire could burnAs absolute zero would seizeFunctions meant for a...
View ArticleA.J. Kaufmann - Three Poems
Transfigured Sailorshow me, great sailora womb of dismayunconquerable African dusksw/ which maddening tyrantsplay, chaos drags them, lordsof bagpipe orbits; midnight mastersgrading flame, ashes of...
View ArticleGregory Liffick - Five Poems
Hood Agood block.Morechalkon thesidewalkthanblood.Seniorsin lawnchairsand kidsjumpingropenot targetsin adrive-byshootinggallery. Special Looksand tastehiddenby herjoband ahair net.Ahot...
View ArticleBenjamin Joseph Biesek - One Poem
Stibi peer at black panes with merry awareness of the deada neon pack stuffed with idioms adorns me i oncedocked in the bay area and ate out a girl at a diner with awaitress hotter than etude ninei...
View ArticleMaurice Devitt - One Poem
DreamlessIs this whatyou were born to:the sound of thunderin an upstairs room,the apologyof mirrors,family treesmudgedon the palmof your hand -sweat of blue inkrunningto reveala childless life...
View ArticleJames Shrader - One Poem
When She ComesFirst one I rememberit is Christmas Eve. Outsidemy bedroom window colored lights are strungalong a bending length of fence in the cool Florida night.In the morning there will be fog.Her...
View ArticleCarol Oberg - Three Poems
Entertainment...Did you see me fall against the houseWhen I put my cigarette butt in the pop canAnd after popping back up from my kneesFall, back, again, on my butt;I wasn’t drunk at 9 a.m.Nor still...
View ArticleAnna Gaccione - One Poem
Upon a Neglected WallThe sun’s gaze landsUpon a neglected wallUsually hidden by darkness.Light wakes the colors.Rosewood and russet greet each other.They begin to danceBack and forth across the...
View ArticleDavid S. Pointer - One Poem
Beat Writers of Humanity RemembranceKerouac must have heard the atomic bomb as it was being bottle fed leading to his honorary double speaking medically discharged conscientious objector-type...
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