ROAD TRIP by Sarah Sherwood
ROAD TRIPby Sarah Sherwood
A Wild Place
I come from a place quite untouched by fame,Where waters flow, quiet and pure.In this place, there’s no conquest to claim.The people are safe and secure.
I come from a...
NEW TESTAMENT by George Held
NEW TESTAMENTby George Held
New Testament
And the land shall open like a giant vaginaallowing the re-birth channel to swallowall the detritus of our sick civilization –the fossil fuel-guzzling auto-mobiles,the stone mansions and cardboard shacks,fences and...
JANUARY by Laura Foley
JANUARYby Laura Foley JanuaryA blizzard of cyclone-cold windwhips snow in Elysian driftsaround Stygian pines,builds fantastical walls around the house,turns familiar woods otherworldly,provides a world of reasons to stay inside,as the finches at the feedergrow more...
LEMONS FOR CLARA by Leslie Philibert
LEMONS FOR KLARAby Leslie Philibert
Lemons for Klara
for Klara Grünzweig 1957-2016
drops of river or ice patches;all of this without your noticebut tough and half eternal
the lemon tree growscool and silent;this makes you remain.
Golem
unholy earth, dark...
IT’S THAT KIND OF DARK by Kate LaDew
IT’S THAT KIND OF DARKby Kate LaDew
it’s that kind of dark exactly
like in those silent films, when the man tenderly puts his arm around the woman’s back, under her knees,lifts her white and black...
COMFORT IN A THEORY by Mark Taksa
COMFORT IN A THEORYby Mark Taksa
Comfort in a Theory
The watering can I hold over a daisyis dry. Waiting for my neighbor to appearin her window, I pose. The pocket of my shirthides the ripped...