Poetry 26/28

Therese Villar

Jan 1, 20182 min read

Therese Villar, three poems

LACEY Lacey completed five self-portraits and one landscape Now she rested surrounded by the five self-portraits and one landscape She...

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Yuan Changming

Jan 1, 20181 min read

Yuan Changming, one poem

Walnut A belittled brownish brain Hardened within spiky skin Keeps all the cloud-like secrets of The passing season, cursively In each of...

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Maria Masington

Jan 1, 20182 min read

Maria Masington, two poems

Destiny of the Modern-Day Gladiola I kneel in my garden. Once boasting upright, tight-fisted buds, now a carpet of leaning green stalks...

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Joseph Reich

Oct 31, 20171 min read

Joseph Reich, one poem

Traveling when i die i just want my wife to dump my tired bones right on the porch none of that fancy schmanzy futile funeral nonsense...

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Joan Colby

Oct 31, 20172 min read

Joan Colby, three poems

BIRDBIRDISTHEWORD Crouched in the paddies with the wounded Waiting hushed until the hum Like a loud dragonfly, the rotors whirring. Bird...

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Grant Clauser

Oct 31, 20173 min read

Grant Clauser, four poems

The Neighbor Killed Snakes Each spring they swarmed the Jehovah woman's garden, ten or twenty a day, hundreds in the length of a week....

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Gregory Luce

Oct 31, 20171 min read

Gregory Luce, two poems

And She Moves (On some lines from Nick Cave / for Naomi) And she moves among the sparrows and seed falls from her hand like droplets from...

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Karen Mandell

Oct 31, 20171 min read

Karen Mandell, one poem

Casting Off Rose had taken to reusing paper plates. She’d brush them off—a bit of grease didn’t matter. Another cheese sandwich, chips...

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Maria Keane

Oct 31, 20171 min read

Maria Keane, two poems

Cezanne Speaks to Artists Who Wait to be Inspired “I struggle with the meaning of life. I paint the ambiguous appearance of reality, and...

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Mark Madigan

Oct 31, 20171 min read

Mark Madigan, one poem

REFUSE If, in the moments after we left you pulled in to the new Howard Johnson Motor Lodge you would’ve seen two faded husks of old...

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Martin Willitts

Oct 31, 20173 min read

Martin Willitts, four poems

Transformation Light changes slowly with subtle words such as cautious and determinedly, marking a demarcation line across the horizon,...

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Melvin Litton

Oct 31, 20171 min read

Melvin Litton, one poem

Poetic Joust “Why allude to the pinion of the linnet’s wing,” he said, “when brother poets sing of ailerons on sleek silver birds? “Clean...

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Paul Perreault

Oct 31, 20171 min read

Paul Perreault, one poem

Agoraphobia It was when I turned the clocks back I remember the freedom the fear When my foot first crossed the threshold of the large...

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Richard Luftig

Oct 31, 20171 min read

Richard Luftig, one poem

A Grammar for Snow I who have yearned a lifetime to learn their names like a discoverer in a foreign land. Blizzard and squalls, bands...

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Dan Cuddy

Oct 31, 20171 min read

Dan Cuddy, one poem

An American Hero plunk-plunk turn fire swish though a ball through a net doesn't make that much sound and there were three seconds left...

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Steven Ray Smith

Oct 31, 20172 min read

Steven Ray Smith, two poems

Beginnings An old sneaker splits a vent and suddenly it’s shoe shopping day again; or maybe it’s not new shoes but the start of the old...

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Patricia L. Goodman

Oct 31, 20172 min read

Patricia L. Goodman, two poems

LEFT BEHIND Sunrise was heaven—from first rosy blush outside our farm bedroom, to full-blown spectacle of rouged sky, to heart-quickening...

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Craig Kurtz

Oct 31, 20172 min read

Craig Kurtz, two poems

Prologue to The Comedy of Errors ANTIPHOLUS: Who wants a lackey that is smart, he’ll short-change you right from the start; you send him...

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Christopher Rizzo

Oct 31, 20175 min read

Christopher Rizzo, one poem

GABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ IS DEAD “Un bateau frêle comme un papillon de mai” —Rimbaud 1. So Molière’s character didn’t know he had been...

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Nicole Yurcaba

Sep 1, 20172 min read

Nicole Yurcaba, four poems

Reading The Fountainhead While Fishing The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.—Ayn...

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