A.J. Kaufmann - One Poem
Naked Bar-DoSitting in the sand, wrapped in wind unwinding brain branches pine brainy beach crazy who would like a wife in addition to singing moles who wouldn't want to hide from the world in coastal...
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As Calliope and I Crawl into Bed TogetherAs Calliope and I crawl in to bed together, it is with reckless abandon I write this.Only 20 minutes to birth this bun in the oven, and...
View ArticleTrish Saunders - Two Poems
Belief SystemsAt 13, a terrifying and holy age,I believed life offers tentacles for greatnessto everyone.It doesn't.I am older now than Bobby Kennedy, Gilda Radner,Martin Luther King, John Lennon.All...
View ArticleP.W. Covington - Three Poems
Family HousingI was born near the end of the runwaysOn a Cold War, CaliforniaDesert Air Force BasePhantom jets and F-105'sThundered overhead, and I slept as a babySecure in my bedClean, small,...
View ArticleGrant Tabard - Two Poems
Primrose Hill, at DawnThe city appears out of the fold,like a great ghost leering over the horizon seeking imperfection in the cut of the sky.Purloined cloud vestments caress the tips of the grazing...
View ArticleJoseph Saling - One Poem
When I Sleep I DreamWhen I sleep I dream, even though I can’t close my eyes. But in my head, I go away. Sitting at a pianoon stage, I'm illumined by a single spot,and I can’t see beyondit's cone of...
View ArticleCaitlan Johnson - One Poem
HephaestusI.This is a weapon.It was not forged in the fire-pits,left to rot by Hades,but instead originated here in myclouds--the small domain I rulewithout much interference.II.This is not my...
View ArticleAbigail Wyatt - Two Poems
Our String Bean GirlsWe have forgotten the ways of slow growthand the harvest that derives from careful husbandry:how the wintering earth shrinks and hardens,protecting the new growth at its heart.Our...
View ArticleStefanie Bennett - Two Poems
Anti-Politic's Thumbnail Whoever's prophet materialHad best seek counselFrom the nationOf the 'northern lights':No velure head-hunter need apply -No Moulin Rouge mudslinger -No tyrannous protoplasm...
View ArticleJohn Grey - Three Poems
These Odds In its old age, the universehas become these people I know,physically close, emotionallyat their far reaches.In the motion of their recession.,their red shift, they have turnedinto spectral...
View ArticleMichael Brautigan - Two Poems
The Fairy CastleIt’s sad to watchthe wizards as they duel with their lightning sticks.Let’s hide behind the giant stones.Let’s run away into the night.The vines will embrace us.The leaves will kiss...
View ArticleRoscoe Matthews - One Poem
Dry Heatthe fever persiststhe body reactsnone of this is newi need a drinki can't have one,it's been twenty sevenand a half sober monthsand still i find myself headedfor the car and on my wayimagining...
View ArticleRobert F. Gross - Two Poems
Death Sentence Let’s all agree that we’ve had more than enough of wordsAnd the savage orders we all impose on words.The felonious heart, scarred and worked over, condemnedTo the tool shop, gear shop,...
View ArticleDonna J. Snyder - Two Poems
Shortest Distance Between Two PointsFragments of photographs on the pageA walk along an uncharted pathThe shortest distance between two pointsnot necessarily desiredA third point and we have a planeThe...
View ArticleBen Newell - One Poem
Sunny Side DownFearing a DUI debacle,I call a cab to pick me up at my apt.and deliver me to the bar;I tell the driver that I feel lucky,lucky as in some sweet thingis going to take me home,adding that...
View ArticleMarianne Szlyk - One Poem
Evening on Chinkapin Street The men are talking about evolution, about relativity,about earth science and epistemology--how do we know what we know. On a nubby blue couch,I yawn, and the world...
View ArticleTom Hall - One Poem
Sonnet: And bridgesThe very dew of life lies soft and low,Its faint humidity is mist to mind.All of love’s senses must converge and grow,As saplings that find and bind, a life intertwined.Comes in from...
View ArticleJ.J. Campbell - One Poem
Hot Phone Sex on a Tuesday Nightit was the unexpectedwords from nowherealmost like thingsjust fell right backinto place after manylong months of silencenot that i'm complainingit certainly makes...
View ArticleMichael Ceraolo - One Poem
from The Degreening of America Book Two"A man can patent a mouse trapor copyright a nasty song" "butif he gives to the world a new fruitthat will add millions to...
View ArticleGary Beck - Three Poems
Urban AsylumThe demented trudge the streets,some salvaging cans, bottles,laboring for normality,entrepreneurialin the madness of city life.Others rave to themselves,or passing strangers,frightening...
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