I CAN TELL NO-ONE, EXCEPT THIS POEM by Susan C. Waters
Age is Creeping Toward Me
Like the Old Maidin a children’s deck of cards,it was hidden, going round and roundthe table until the last card:a dowdy, with a misshapen...
ALMA DESATADA by Roseangelina Baptista
Alma Desatada
A serração desceu rápida e do-í-da.Veio duma latência em rodeios Açorianos.Solitário rochedo, suspenso em fosca água-lusa.Longe, o coro das oliveiras ao léu.
Açores! Por...
SONNET CDLXII by Terry Brinkman
Sonnet CDLXII
Deep velvet Azul of the Nile
Steely skies rolling ridge wheel
Gallivanting around as they kneel
Meadow of...
ALL NIGHT by John Raffetto
VISITATIONTime becomes a pixilated memoryof bliss and bloodas the clock winds down.We pause to visit for a brief dazeas the foundation weakens while wonders compressinto petrified shadows a labyrinth of murky intrigueforgotten...
A COLUMN OF SMOKE by Sally Sandler
A Column of Smoke
ghosted west to the seaand I missed my off ramp
like most of the otherswho prayed to the fire gods
I AWAIT HIS RETURN by Alex Koong
If there’s one thing I’ve learnedfrom the hours spent staringat the tiny airplane on the edgewhere the sky breaks the rock,
It’s that when scenery passesbetween two realities, flashes...
SEÑORITA BANTE! by Roseangelina Baptista
Bante!
Assim te chamei.
Entretanto, duvideique pudesses me ensinara arte de abraçar as coisascomo elas vêm para nós.
Como o invernodesiste de sina...
MEDUSA by Andre DeCuir
MEDUSAby Andre DeCuir
When My Father Calls
When my father calls, we talk of birds,how the blue jays cannonball,their large bodies splashingwater out of his birdbaths:old...
INCONSTANTE CORAÇÃO by Roseangelina Batista
INCONSTANTE CORAÇÃOby Roseangelina Batista
INCONSTANTE CORAÇÃOPrelúdio ao poema de Ajahn Mun
Ora um fluxo de momentos,ora um fluxo de vazio presente.
A semântica...
BASIL by Gigi Guizado
Heart-shaped Vase
If my fragile heart should break,fill my ventricles with flowers;like bud vases for roses and peonies.That would please me.
If my swollen heart should...