S.L. Schultz - One Poem
StruckStruck but not down they climb the hill in staggering gait.Drops of red mark their panicked ascent and melt away white into pink and lavender holes.Fell now but struggling to recover tan...
View ArticleParker Weston - Two Poems
Terminal OptimismIt was a bright and sunny day, and all throughout the land flowers were burning and bleeding all of the dehydrated fuzzy little creatures slowed to a crawl before ceasing their futile...
View ArticleRon Riekki - One Poem
The Burn Bin, Turkey, Classified Material A hundred paper bagsfilled with the manure of espionage, the heat like the deadalive, crawling their way out of phones. I’d rake the muck, takemy time, not...
View ArticleAnna Mirzayan - One Poem
Writing Time At PhilzDark roast is coffee that has been roastedalmost to the point of burning.It turns from green to charcoal.Today the air smells blackened, singed,tinted with vast quietness of fields...
View ArticleWanda Morrow Clevenger - Two Poems
Pockets Full of Posey There is no saving your daughters from after school villains, their pockets fullof posey; daughters will follow these boys anywhere,try anything to prove they're not children...
View ArticleNina Kossman - One Poem
Shadow Over the TownHelen's shadow on Trojan rocksstill burdens the Greeks,burdens them with the highest taxesthe loved exacts from the lover:middle-class teashop warmth forsaken,adding machines count...
View ArticleMegan Merchant - One Poem
Tulips by Your BedsideI don’t know if you see death as a blood-blister, or a sky-drawn curtain, but the javelina dug up every last tulip seed we planted. Your refusal to fight is already a hole in the...
View ArticleJohn Jay Flicker - One Poem
The Business of Being Introverted All modes of thought become wall flowers beating to the quiet rhythm of the dulcimer in a melody of pine and aerosolComposure through an immodest retreat peeling off...
View ArticleJoseph Saling - Two Poems
Reading Other People's Poems March 19: Today Lisa brought me a book of her poems and asked me to read them.II was not impressedShe was honey, sweet fruits falling, warm fleece and down, packed around...
View ArticleKeith Wesley Combs - One Poem
Parfait-. yes perfect. parfait- ideal. your mind and your soul. perfect a creation of sure grace by the most intelligent being of all. yes brilliant. to the touch. to smell. to taste the sweat licked...
View ArticleRichard Schnap - One Poem
PostmortemHe woke up one dayAnd decided to writeA letter to himselfThat came back unopenedWith a stamp that saidNo one at this addressSo he found a pay phoneAnd called his houseBut got a recordingThat...
View ArticleBronwen Manger - One Poem
Tricks of the LightI think we've met in wildflowers,and lay somewhere unpoisonedbefore now; I think I've seen you -thrown from muddy mountains;sometime frightening I held you -heard your whisper in the...
View ArticleKurt Nimmo - One Poem
Never Endingthat’s what they say now the people who study such things. the universe has no beginning and probably no end. it is infinite. I am unable to wrap my mind around that one. no beginning. no...
View ArticleTimothy Pilgim - One Poem
Mourning Becomes Eclectic Call it the spawning of grief.Brother, enemy, mother, niece, dad, sister, cousin, friend --deceased, all but memories gone. Lover too on the run, vanished, lost,no longer...
View ArticleTom Pescatore - One Poem
Happy Ever AfterSometimes Bukowski isjust too sad for me,harping on death,thinking about deathall the time, sitting and drinkingand angry growlingat the page,Kerouac, too, with his deathand compassion...
View ArticleIvan Jenson - Two Poems
Unadulterated Facts I am discontinuing my subscriptionto the periodic delivery of glossyfleshy fantasyand I am insteadfacing full frontalreality cellulite and alland I am no longerphoto shoppingaround...
View ArticleCarl Scharwath - One Poem
Aphonic She is the lamentof the voicelessconsuming silenceonto parchmentinto the psyche, histories skirmishchains of the enslaved loosen their duressto her words– we together manipulatethe...
View ArticleChristopher Steven Seymore - Two Poems
Tying a Strong KnotTo pull it tautsnug rubber wrapped wireto test the anchordeeply seated, sheetrock and studYou have to give no flying fiddle sticksthe mess you leave On the cusp of winning it’sa...
View ArticleBud Faust - One Poem
Everyone Wants the Truth She did not likethe poster of Lenny Brucehanging beside the bed,the one that says“FUCK”in bright red lettersright across the middleof it. “What does something like thatsay to...
View ArticleChris D'Errico - One Poem
Vegas Rules So you can afford to play Tangle with one-armed banditsYou can wager you can skid In khaki shorts and beige sandalsCocktails cocktails cocktails Cashier looks like an 80s MadonnaGreen felt...
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