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By Scott Waters Negative A ball of black floats in a bottomless sea of brightness sends out dark rays in 360 degree generosity and where they strike– fence … Continue Reading “Negative”, “I Never Meta Poet I Didn’t Like”, “View from a Corner Table”, “Intimations”, and “For Those Who Pass in Their Sleep”
By Jhilam Chattaraj Damodar Out of the sky-window I see sand ribbons — narrow and dry, holding the lush green hair of paddy fields — … Continue Reading “Damodar” and “Twilight on the Tungabhadra”
By Solape Adetutu Adeyemi Going shopping My shopping basket under my arm I go shopping again Second time in a row They said she must be quiet and … Continue Reading “Going shopping”, “In the heat of the moment”, and “Freebies”
By Jennifer M. Phillips Seed Potatoes In my lean days I picture the seed potatoes rotating in my Grandad’s work-seamed fingers the point of his knife deft … Continue Reading “Seed Potatoes”
By Joanne Holdridge EVENING COMES TO ROCKPORT a long slow darkening moving across the ocean’s surface softening to shadow the rocks of the breakwater edging out day as … Continue Reading “EVENING COMES TO ROCKPORT”, “WHEN LOVE IS A FACT IN YOUR LIFE”, “NO WAY BACK”, and “LET US ALL SAY AMEN”
By Fran Schumer The Art of Waiting My mother waits, watches the snow. She’s frail, 94, paralyzed with Parkinson’s. Until last year, she swam walked, cajoled, exhorted, ate … Continue Reading “The Art of Waiting”, “Light in August”, “Yizkor/Remember”, and “Dead Mothers”
By Ayòdéjì Israel What Disfigures This Poem is the Mention of Fire it was midnight. we dragged our feet … Continue Reading “What Disfigures This Poem is the Mention of Fire”, “Scatter My Sorrow”, and “Sweet Home”
By Frederick Wilbur Learners for Heather Sunday afternoon, my daughter, just fifteen and proud of an officially clean permit, drives ovals around the school parking lot. I … Continue Reading “Learners”, “Happen”, “Vessel”, and “Pocket Poems for a Pair of Jeans”
By Arno Bohlmeijer Aheadindefinitely The clock with patience,counting my hours or days,has been to the creator’sfor ages, for repairs. Now the hand can even beturned back, which scares me,although … Continue Reading “Ahead indefinitely”, “Prelude”, and “The insight, learned by fright”
By Abbie Hart gardening habit allegory of garden.seditious tongue,when you askbuti am the gardeni am the thing rotting in itand i am a housebecause that is the only thing … Continue Reading “gardening habit” and “refuge”
By Charles Weld Twelve by fourteen feet, five windows, and a shed roof. For heat—a stove piped into a brick chimney. Outside—matched boards—clay color with chocolate trim. Within—bare wood, no … Continue Reading Ricketson’s Shanty
By David A. Goodrum Across from ripped-up tracks where trains no longer echo collapsed shacks retain ghosts of exhausted bodies. Under a broken and grey caved-in roof beneath overcast sky … Continue Reading Abandoned Dreams
By Anne Whitehouse I The Moai It’s a miracle they are here at all, on a solitary island surrounded by ocean, thousands of miles from anywhere, with a volcanic crater … Continue Reading Burnt Statues
By Morgan Neering A woman filled with the joy of living returns home puts her keys on the table receipts from the store, puts the bills in a bowl there, … Continue Reading On the Kitchen Table
By Claudia Wysocky When it begins to sink— When it pains me to believe that something won’t change even though you try, And all your words mean nothing all these … Continue Reading Thoughts on Cars?
By John Tustin You told me not to die but I didn’t want to listen to you – I wanted to die right there and then or even during that … Continue Reading DON’T DIE