Poetry - Year IV - Number 25 - June 2019

THE STATE OF AFFAIRS by Douglas Polk The State of Affairsignorance now,the reality,yet knowledge accumulated,easily and endlessly,everyday,on the web,yet surprisingly,isolated,the process of thought atrophies,while interaction becomes more difficult,with each passing day,more like a herd of sheep,or...

A PIECE OF TIME by Peycho Kanev The Hospital Snow-white and farinaceous andlittle green. Tall windowsand birds on the branches outsidelike in an aquarium.Squeak of rubbers solesand wheels on the linoleum. Then a scream echoes that quickly fades away.It...

TOO MANY WORDS by Mukund Gnanadesikan Too Many Words Obfuscate if you mustIf it helps assuage the sicknessThat roils your conscienceCausing fever and deliriumExcuse me if the corners of my mouthRemain unmoved by your gyrationsOf flowing lingual...

TEXAS TOWER by Mickey J. Corrigan Texas Tower You set your sites onthe highest point in townwith a maximum rangeand full inaccessibilityfor the enemy below.Who is the enemy nowyou wonder as you driveto the university and riseto...

A PLACE CALLED HOME by Diana Papazian A place called homeI'm from a place of endless nightsof conversations by the kitchen stove.I'm from a place where people smile,yet their eyes betray generations of sorrow and misplaced hope.Where...

THE WALT WHITMAN BRIDGEby Steven Goff Ferris Wheel At the impetus of fortune or fate,you and I have stolen ourselves away to the confinesof a bucket seatand are lifted easily like silver hands traversing pearl inlayon...

KA OCEAN by Daniel King Ka Ocean Oceans form with an oboe call;Brahma’s seas with a Tritonic horn.Now the sea is a blue spinel;Now the sea is a sparkling gemstone.Cabochon floats its topaz egg,Shabda on all the...

REVOLT by George Held On St. Cecilia’s Day     22 November             From harmony, from heav’nly harmony                    This universal frame began . . .—John Dryden, “A Song for St. Cecilia’s Day, 1687” They don’t make saints like you anymore...