HAIKU BETWEEN THE EARTH AND THE STARS by David Boyer
HAIKU BETWEEN THE EARTH AND THE STARSby David Boyer Haiku Between the Earth and the Starsmilk splash in coffee the weather report for Jupiterforest at dawn when she lied like a kaleidoscopeto be as many...
LONG FORGOTTEN MISERY by Jon Benham
LONG FORGOTTEN MISERYby Jon Benham
Long forgotten misery.
They say,control, control,condone, condone.Maybe then, your progresswill have been shown.Why must the view of window panebe to blame for our struggle?When it isthe walls who beg to differ.And,...
INVENTING GOD by Mark Burke
INVENTING GODby Mark Burke
INVENTING GOD
Who was the first to speak out loud,call to the sky, invent a namefor the lord of light?Was she in the mountains when cloudscame so low against the slopesshe dreamed...
PLEASURES OF THE STREET by R.T. Castleberry
PLEASURES OF THE STREETby R.T. Castleberry PLEASURES OF THE STREETStanding in the doorwaytrying to make outwho’s crying in the flamesSister says it’s redhead Judasshe can place it in the Holy WordSheriff leans from the passenger...
LOWER THE BLINDS by Edward Bonner
LOWER THE BLINDSby Edward Bonner
A faint murmured word spoken with a stunning smile.Like opening your eyes in the early morning and gazing at Jupiter all alone.A surreal glow filled the heavens from her beauty.An...
IN A PORTUGUESE FIELD by George Moore
IN A PORTUGUESE FIELDby George Moore
In a Portuguese Field
A dolmen by abandoned railsthat cross this terrible, empty fieldin lower Europe, and the gravetoppled sometime in the first centuryand near the rusted tracksstill ringing with...
LIGHT OF DELIGHT by Catherine Rohsner
LIGHT OF DELIGHTby Catherine Rohsner
College is where life fantastically bloomsa setting of great expectations, and when you’ve lived it:Immortality, Immaturity—a gathering of the young.
Take your turn and consequences will abound:friendships, hot tea warming hands,plentiful...
NIGHT: A VISION by Christien Gholson
NIGHT: A VISIONby Christien Gholson
Transubstantiation
1.
Who owns the note to the house? CitiMortgage owns the note. No, it's Freddie Mac. Trace the note through the ether and you'll find it's probably in a cloud on...
INTRICATE MEANDERS OF BRITTLE LAND by Eduardo Escalante
INTRICATE MEANDERS OF BRITTLE LANDby Eduardo Escalante
Episodes to remember
How many times do I think I've losta river, culture, language, the sense of the first spaceand in the right place. Despite the arbitrary questionsof certain...
REDGATE by Robert Wood
REDGATEby Robert Wood
REDGATE
Where carrots and cabbagesand ships hauled over sand and sound
where they remarked thatthe colour was always green, somehow, andthe mushrooms were never found
where the twilight was molassesbecause we lost our matches,
that was...