NAMELESS MOMENTS – By Harold Barnes
NAMELESS MOMENTSBy Harold Barnes NAMELESS MOMENTSThis poemIs s proxyA placeholderFor every lapseIn my memoryIt representsThe fullness ofMy lifeA sum of allThe nameless momentsThat shaped meThe undersideOf the coinThe greater ofTwo evils PARANOIDI fear these wordsHave already...
HONEYMOON FOR A GHOST – By Hyrum K. Hunt
POEMSBy Osip Mandelstam / translated by Don Mager
Untitled
Accept as gladness from my palmsA little sun and a little honeyAs the bees of Persephone directed.
Not to be untied is an unmoored boat,Not to be heard...
NOT YOU – By Sandra Hosking
NOT YOUBy Sandra Hosking
Cricket Serenade
Cricket sings his songWind carries it to TigerHer ear flicks then turns
Dragonfly
Why call it dragonIf it does not breathe fire?Heed its crushing jaw
Joe Wears a Cape
Joe wears a cape, superhero...
(SHADOWGRAPH 144: FROM ONE CAVITY TO ANOTHER)
SHADOWGRAPH 144: FROM ONE CAVITY TO ANOTHERBy Sean Howard
shadowgraph 144: from one cavity to another(poetry detected in claude cohen-tannoudji’s nobel physics lecture, 1997)
‘the orchestrated effort’: detuning the spheres! (chime waves.) ‘sequencing,’ eventide, bells summoning the stars… (macbeth’sred carpet.) hulled, light...
THE BUG ON THE WALL – By Sam Kaufman
A POEM IN WHICH THE MOON REJECTS YOUBy Danielle Hanson
Instructions on Stripping
Take the rotten unused light of the moon,Add what the mirror sees when it is dark—Forgetting is lovely at night. Throw away all that...
DREAM PATHS – By Denny E. Marshall
DREAM PATHSBy Denny E. Marshall Spiral LongingFreedomIn DNAIn all of usImmuneTo evolution Dream PathsI often wonder why dreams seem so realSome recalled most evaporate like frostMind has a failsafe what not to revealI often wonder why...
THE RIVER – By Anna Kapung
FEET ON UNSTABLE WATERSBy Anna Kapung THE RIVER The river is the same conceitedProceeds with its own eloquenceOpen in its clarity and influenceDark is its colour it has influenceIts licence to hold what it knowsIts prerogative...
MY FATHER’S DOG TAGS – By Billy Malanga
MY FATHER’S DOG TAGSBy Billy Malanga
My Father’s Dog Tags
The name on my father’s brass dog tagsdoesn’t match his driver’s license.The gunfire caves filled with burning fleshand bloodshot south Pacific surfhad taken its toll. He...
VISITOR – By Sukrita Paul Kumar
MY FATHER’S DOG TAGSBy Billy Malanga
My Father’s Dog Tags
The name on my father’s brass dog tagsdoesn’t match his driver’s license.The gunfire caves filled with burning fleshand bloodshot south Pacific surfhad taken its toll. He...