Andrew Darlington - One Poem
You'll Never Find A Gay In Catholic Church‘After 200 years of Masswe’ve got as far as poison gas…’ (Thomas Hardy)Our father who art not necessarily in heavenhallowed be thy name… but only up to a...
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ChasmThe fissure in the broken frame of my winter, Hewn from molding, gray, aged elm, Cracks the mirror holding me captive, hanging, Crooked, crammed in the corner, clothed in cobwebs, Where the wispy...
View ArticleRobert F. Gross - Two Poems
Demolition Jobstanding too longtotally unsafeincredibly massivework of a lifetimetake it downstrip off safety gearwork nakedstep in closebreathe what’s toxicunlearn limitsfinger lines of least...
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You Knew I Was Home, Ignoring the BellI would have invited you in butthere was a black dog lookingcalmly at me in the mirrorafter the doctor suggested I give upchocolates and coffee --the very things I...
View ArticleTendai R. Mwanaka - Two Poems
The WarI have decided to leave this city of war. The war has gone out of control. You never know who belongs to whom, anymore. What the fight is all about....
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BienOne hundred fifteen yearsI carried my name, Santiago Lazaro Perez,gave it to a good wifewho now sits nearour dear Lady of Guadalupeand to nine children, all but two who I had to bury.No está...
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Halfway Theremy first night in the new worlda storm marches in from beyond the gray mountainsperhaps from as far as the sea of red glassthe wind speaks in tonguesthe green moon is fullthe storm...
View ArticleJonathan Butcher - Two Poems
Our Last Walk Under the shadow of that imposing grey mass of steel and concrete, we make the drink filled promises of illthought out reunions, that never for a sober minute would ever be considered...
View ArticleLarry Duncan - One Poem
Saint Lucy Lost Her BowlSaint Lucy brushes against meas I order another Bushmills,her eyes in her hands.She has lost her golden dish.After all, the Dark Agesended in the advent of perspective—bodies...
View ArticleJack E. Lorts - Two Poems
Ephram Pratt Extolls Billiard Balls of Dust Encased in silencelike wings on an invisible bird,the lions of redress unleash themselvesinto broad strokes of an isolated burgess welcomed into the...
View ArticleScott Laudati - Two Poems
Meni neverquestioned thatmy father was areal man; hecould dothosethings. thingsweaker fathers couldn’t(give a funeralspeech withouttearing, build a shedand fill itwith toolshe knew howto use). things...
View ArticleStephen Jarrell Williams - One Poem
Indisputable It’s bad in hereCramped in one room the size of a walk-in closet with all my stuffMy computer screen the main lightThe lone window smeared over with black paint peelingSome streetlight...
View ArticleDarren C. Demaree - Two Poems
Nude Male With Echo #53It is less Greekto say I feel the worldmuch more through my feetthan I ever have from the sun above& though my skin does pinkunder the harsh blessingof the old god, I am home...
View ArticleEmily Tuttle - One Poem
Through The Looking GlassI had a dream last night that you were waitingat my grandmother’s.A huge tree was in the middle of the kitchen,trunk so huge you had to climb it to get fromthe oven to the...
View ArticleMichael Lee Johnson - Two Poems
Abandoned Indiana farmhouseabandonedexcept oldgrandfather clock dusty cornerpendulummotionless-still all familymemories remainhidden behindthat face. Common Church Poem Sitting here in this...
View ArticleTamer Mostafa - Two Poems
ConsensusThere’s always been a working classand cycles of economic instability.The newspapers call them crises. The downturn of the seventies, inland industrialization, wedding ring—ziplock exchanges...
View ArticleDouglas Campbell - Two Poems
Dark Walking Before dawn, when Orion and a slivered moon dominate,when maples are barely articulatedagainst a leafless skyand the air is quiet,when few eyes travel this roadthe stars ride highand...
View ArticleNeil Ellman - Three Poems
The Man Who Flew into His Own Picture (Ilya Kabakov, room installation) The man who flew into his own picturebecame anything but himselfor the thing he most wanted to bewith the face he most wanted to...
View ArticleAutumn Meier - One Poem
LavaI tried to capture you the other day—To put your love into words, toDescribe the fire coursing throughYour veins. Of course you’re fire;Lovely things are rarely anything but.Yet the bonfires are...
View ArticleCraig Shay - One Poem
Ghost FaceHe sings beside the ticket-windowhallucinations of flapperswalking and talking through the linoleum hallways of his mind.He sees the soulsof the passersbythrough the television static,a...
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