Two poems
Arthur Be gone, you bastardly bully, vacate the youthful frame that lives inside my mirror. Deliver me from your hostile embrace, evil...
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john sweet
Feb 28, 20191 min read
"the glimmer"
or consider your father’s suicide from the safety of 25 years away set your own failures against his sleep through december through...
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Karen Heyman
Feb 28, 20192 min read
"A Love Song for Anxious Times"
A red-headed toddler feeds apple slices to a baby goat while a well-on-her-way to zaftig young beauty in a wicker chair who could be his...
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Laurinda Lind
Feb 28, 20192 min read
Three poems
Into the Gap Everything on shore bites, but I’m not there. My friend Fred is back at the throttle and I’m up in the bow on a boat cushion...
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Lee Passarella
Feb 28, 20192 min read
Two poems
Life on the Edge “Foxy,” the perfect epithet she and her like have spawned: wave-sleek, glowing paprika- and-cream in the headlights as...
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Linda Umans
Feb 28, 20192 min read
Three poems
Invitation to Elizabeth Bishop Mortal to immortal come walk with me on the trippy floor of Amazonian Brazil. Walk in the rain forest....
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Ann Quinn
Feb 28, 20192 min read
"Dream Lagoon"
the goldfinches are back, or others like them --Elizabeth Bishop I get it now, how they could bear to see this picture hanging over the...
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Robert Joe Stout
Feb 28, 20191 min read
Two poems
After the Separation I From the window I could see people scuttling through the mist, their faces striped strawberry and lemon by neon...
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Roger Singer
Feb 28, 20191 min read
"Pillars of Salt"
Abandoned and looking back every puddle is a reservoir of a remembrance a legend of metaphors and information tales of bones and music...
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Steve Cooke
Feb 28, 20191 min read
"Sarah Siddons As the Tragic Muse"
(A portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1784) At home in center stage, within the light, Upon your columned throne, in tragic role, This...
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Marc Swan
Feb 28, 20192 min read
Three poems
What Changes Before the ten o’clock HBO show with Bill Maher bait and switching his guests, spewing inflammatory rhetoric astounding us...
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James Bourey
Jan 1, 20194 min read
Review of Caught in the Myth by Alison Stone
And Jezebel gets her chance to point an accusatory finger at the people who wrote the “record” -
The truth
of any prophecy’s decided
by tho
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Obediah Michael Smith
Jan 1, 20192 min read
A poem from Obediah Michael Smith
A Sum of Women am I going to have to live divided I dread it I am dreading it dreading this division of my heart all four chambers used...
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Jennefer York Cole
Dec 22, 20181 min read
"Her First Poem"
was written at the airport heading back home with her girls during the split – for a breath of fresh air. She prepared the bags before,...
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Bill Glose
Dec 22, 20182 min read
Two Poems
Making Plans Cocooned in sheets, she clings to Caribbean dreams of topaz water and white sand, calypso music and fruity drinks with...
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Eric Greinke
Dec 22, 20181 min read
Two Poems
Heat Wave A prolonged heat wave brings order to our days. Here in the northern woods we’re not used to hot weather. We write letters...
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Gale Acuff
Dec 22, 20184 min read
Two Poems
Spliced On Saturday nights I dream about her, Miss Hooker, my Sunday School teacher, how we're married and in our living room and...
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Kevin Casey
Dec 22, 20183 min read
Five Poems
The Tip of Your Tongue Anomic aphasia is characterized by the inability to remember the appropriate word to identify an object, a...
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Anum Sattar
Dec 22, 20182 min read
Two poems
White Torture Unlike an electrocutor trap that instantly kills the incandescent bulb welcomes with its warm light and the bedazzled...
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Martin Willitts
Dec 22, 20181 min read
"Love is Quick"
Love is quick-crashing meteorites. We measure with all the wrong tools. I opened a book; a stream of birds flew out. Love is that...
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