John Attah - Two Poems
Heal These BonesHeal these bones that lie on this valleyWhere the cloud gathersWhere the rains fallAnd thunder barks the testimony back to heavenLift them up like the bronze serpentAnd let there be...
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Traitor Joe Be assured, not an easy task, even aidedby fine wine, a Cote de Rhone -- in fact, I did not actually plant the wheat, grind flour, sift it, grow greens, force-feed geese, take their...
View ArticleRichard Schnap - Two Poems
WardrobeIn the morning she wokeWith hope for the new dayA white dress embroideredWith flowers and starsThen in the mailArrived three overdue billsA grey smock frayedAt its collar and sleevesNext came a...
View ArticleEmily Ramser - One Poem
I Am In Lesbian Space Your nipple is my spaceship,as I am an astronautexploring the space of the bodymy mother told me I shouldn’t touch. I have landed on a comet bearing your nameand I must radio home...
View ArticleJocelyn Mosman - One Poem
Neurosis I am dark matter, white noise. I can’t fall asleepin midnight’s unrelenting stillness. The quiet makeseveryone and everything outsidedisappear and I feel alone. I don’t know how to be...
View ArticleGary Beck - One Poem
Curtain CallBroadway showopen and closerarely making an impacton the general public,more and more immersedin social media,computer effects moviesdiluting the impactof live theater,foolishly...
View ArticleTaylor Bond - Two Poems
The Last Three People on Earth The lovers made their bed of flowersand I watched from the baseball fieldscheeks hot against the chain-link fence the echoes of metal bats cracked in the distanceperhaps...
View ArticleRaymond Keen - One Poem
In The Caked Meat Of Our Circumstance On graduation dayWe vomit in our plates.For years we had eaten our skinSo we could obtain membershipOn the Skin-Eating Committee.We had completed our studiesTo...
View ArticleEric McClure - Two Poems
Genetically Mutated Dwarf MouseI was born on an operating table; under the topaz twilight of amethyst surgical-lights – all Frankenstein-like. My first breath was spent mistaking a knife for my mother;...
View ArticleKelven Ka-shing LIT - One Poem
I Miss The Old Old LanternI miss the old old lantern.When I was young and innocent,It was you who brought me downstairs;Carrying this little old old lantern,On the day when the moon was full.I was...
View ArticleStephen Mead - One Poem
Bathing Amid DangerGarments shed, five layers, a bulletProof vest…Now he is thin:Ribs jutting, the hips, a canoe’s middle,The legs, something to be swum, the wristsToo fluid for shackles…In the tub...
View ArticleMatt Babcock - One Poem
Qaddafi’s GranddaughterNot long after bombs stop plunging from the skies over Tripoli, I invade the “Mommy and Me Class” at the local pool. A storm broods. Lightning slithers through murky clouds....
View ArticleMartin H. Levinson - One Poem
Civilization and its DiscontentsI bite my lips, pinch my thighs, pray I don’t pound you into the ground or chuck myself off the twenty-second floor terracewe are standing on as your sip your Singapore...
View ArticleRichard Schnap - Two Poems
And The Winner IsHe sometimes felt He was just a character In someone else’s film Acting a role Set down in a script By an unseen hand For the story of his life Seemed to mimic those He’d see on TV...
View ArticleTom Montag - Two Poems
Tear and Take Usvulture, bird ofdarkness, acrossthe chasm tothe light. Acrossthe emptinessto the holysilence. Take usto and through andpast the face ofGod, lord of death, until we findour rest....
View ArticleColin Dodds - One Poem
Bluff, UtahWaiting by the tumbleweeds for my laundry to tumble dryin a jerry-rigged moment of solitude.In the Valley of the Gods, the stone towers and shattered canyons defy symmetry and elude...
View ArticleAlan Steele - One Poem
BottomlandOur Trinity reached its banks today. Pooled,First time in recent member, beggingMy spirit away from my menial tasks, A haze instilled to the afternoon, thusMaking three o’clock more like...
View ArticleAnna Sykora - One Poem
The-rapist what was in your mind Dr. A did you believe you were helping me that’s what you told me in our sessions that’s what I tried to understand I was eleven maybe younger I had no breasts yet...
View ArticleDesi St. Amant - One Poem
The Words She WoreWhen she first spoke,words were leaden with bookish factssandwiched with rehearsed one-linerslike a stiff, over-sized suit: It was pressed, it was cleanbut could not conceal her...
View ArticleSusan Beall Summers - One Poem
Seeing Infinity Focus not on the forestor the trees,look for the small animals beneath the leaf litter:snakes, toads, turtles.Look closer, find snails, beetles,fungus, worms,and microscopic amoeba,...
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