Poetry - Year III - Number 14 - July 2018

SONG CHANGESby Emily Brummett                                        They would go to the barevery week after work,to “Karaoke Thursday”.Together.After graduating,she moved in with him:each drowning in eight yearsof student loans,ready to start their lives.She knew he started going more,“a...

POLITICALby Peter Leight  PoliticalToday I got up in the morning and started promising everything I could think of,together with some things I’ve never even thought of,it makes me feel political,I’m looking in the mirror to see...

GNOMON AND GLASSby Robert René Galván  Gnomon and Glass * Time’s wing casts a shadowon the spun world; The pendulous moonbeats the shore intograins of sand; We fill the glassand watch them dropthrough the elegant waistso that we...

     ILLUSIONby Don Thompson    WaningThe crescent moon flat on its backBleeds out, low in the WestWith no stars nearby—witnessesWho didn’t want to get involved.    IllusionNo wind, but sparrows like leavesScatter as if blown away,Undoing a brief illusion.The...

FLOWERS SCENES FOR THE PRIE-DIEUBy Anna Evas      1    Wisteria How is it, being real,you evoke the unreal?In Tuam, your aerial lavenderssuggest a soiree of elves.In Tokyo, the paintbrush of Hiroshigeturns you into a drapefor a shrine.      2     Mimosa Your...

ACROSS MY BROW by Thad Elmore Beyond the fence I keep a garden out back just beyond the fenceIf you stand on a chairyou can see it without going thereThe sun is just rightthe soil is dark...

NAILSby Jennifer L. Collins  NailsYou used to paint your nails,fluttering them in the airaround us as if they were mosquitosto dart and stingtheir color along clothingor my cheek,threatening feminine touchwhile drying on makeshift wind.I’d be...

VELIMIR CHLEBNIKOV POEMStranslated by Boris Kokotov I don't know whether the Earth is spinning or not... I don't know whether the Earth is spinning or not,                           It depends on whether the word fits the line.I don't know...