Brenton Booth - One Poem
Dancing Naked in the RainRainy Saturday afternoon thinkingabout Whitman’s passage on animalsfrom ‘ Song of Myself’ and wonderingif I will ever write something as greatas that. I can hear several birds...
View ArticleAmy L. George - Two Poems
Danza Acrobatica The skin moves in wayswe do not understand.Beauty begets beauty,touch begets touch,fluid movement amonument to ourcelebration;a twisted banner of redencircles our love.In early...
View ArticleJames Brush - One Poem
Ghazal for Seven GoddessesPilgrims lost their way and wept, hearts brokenat the plundered tomb of their slain goddess.Forests withered; deserts grew. Clouds stood stillfor summons from a silent rain...
View ArticleMariann Garner-Wizard - Two Poems
The Ruinator His meltdowns are calculable by the moon,by his toothaches,and by the migrations of wildebeests thousands of miles away.The science of their predictionobsesses the priestly castethat feeds...
View ArticleRoss Knapp - Two Poems
Married CoupleHurtful truthfulStereotypical staleFutures so brightSo planned--Following societies’ grand design:Twenty to thirty-wedding, make mundane money.Thirty to sixty-Protestant wealth,...
View ArticleMarcie Eanes - One Poem
Reclaiming MyselfI stand fearlessShunning narrow definitionsnot of my choosingNow means no more excusesor hiding from truthsFreeing myselffrom draining relationshipsthat left meshattered and...
View ArticleTom Pescatore - One Poem
I Once Appeared to William Blake in a DreamI once appeared to William Blake in a dream,I was in mourning,for daylight had passed onto night,I was a shadow lurkingand he called outto a vision of...
View ArticleSheikha A. - Two Poems
Coelho’s DesertI once lived in a desert,similar to the one Coelho speaks of;I may not have traversed the sandor left footprints of my soul on it,but I recognise the scent he describesand the four-point...
View ArticleSergio A. Ortiz - Two Poems
Ebolato the desertwhere redemption is free ...Ebola,a faraway transparency,a swig of blood, a touch?West Africajust sank into the sea—redemptionheld up the shredded faces drenched in tearswhat comes...
View ArticleFred Chandler - Two Poems
CompositeA hand drew a faceIt livedBecame a lifeWas a reflectionOf the drawerBetween themOne a lieThe other a truthOne lived onThe other diedForewindEveryone is set about movingExcitedActually...
View ArticleChrystal Berche - One Poem
City of Angels A light for each fallen starThe glowingAlways growingThe image of life captured in cheap rays Tumultuous neonWe’ve forgotten the sun What a shameOur existencespetty...
View ArticleMargaret Boles - One Poem
By The Weir Near the TownhallThe swan's head is redrusty almost bloodythe long neck reachessnake-like downto the river siltsearching for food.He almost, but not quiteuptails it, wrestling withthe mud,...
View ArticleSandra Ramos O'Briant - One Poem
Postmenopausal Reverie Carnal cycles feminine moontide flowPressure redly focusedCherry pie we saidRipened peach stained sweetJuicily secretesPossibilitiesThat make me want to bleed againFor youSandra...
View ArticleBenjamin Nash - Two Poems
City LightsIn dark,in dark pencil,in dark dreary portable,in dark dreamy city lightsa boy is drawing a city in an eye,lined in tall skyscrapers,a little slice of moon,dangling as if a lemon.Glue...
View ArticleJames H. Duncan - One Poem
Men of Karma Iowa, that endless road and fading intothe mile-wide stormfront of pitch black western rain, solid sheets, calling after us, roiling, lashing across the Great Plainsthe dirt in the air,...
View ArticleRichard Schnap - Two Poems
BeastiaryI pass by the cashiersIn their identical uniformsA colony of antsIn a line of shoppersTalking on cell phonesA company of parrotsWhile across the streetStudents run for the busA herd of...
View ArticleTimothy Pilgrim - One Poem
Pee Hate I sleep cold at low tide,back to a naked beach opening herself to the Pacific --own no Nook, cell phone, boat, wear old jeans, rag coat, sift trash, eat molded cheese, ketchup packs from...
View ArticleScott Wozniak - One Poem
Someone’s Son is Sprawled OutBleeding Restitution Execution rings, alongsidestale, gun barrel smokein my broken, bleeding ear. Bewilderment and shockjolts my head clockwiseas aftermath searchingplaces...
View ArticleJames Piatt - Two Poems
The Evolution of Violence Power people Spewing scarlet rhetoric Like broken glass Over the unforgiven, Justifying their lies With selected ambiguities, Words of alienation Burning with crimson...
View ArticleStefanie Bennett - Two Poems
Arbitrary Symbols 2035 Such a lame ‘Read-all-about-it...’.The news-boy wears high fashionred garters,corduroy breeches anda second-handtop hatStarspeep on through. Come Sundays – hepocketssmall...
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