Poetry - Year VI - Number 47 - April 2021

French For Reading It was the requirement I most feared. Wehad to pass a language competency examto progress into the Ph.D. program. I chose French even...

Distant Planets Close to Home No nightor daylocked orbitscorching sidefreezing sidesuper Earthmini Neptuneevaporating waterfrozen wastelandsmall planetdense atmospherenot crushingsuperdense atmospheredistant planetsdistant youhabitable zonehabitable nightsextraterrestrial extremophilescatching existenceconsidering lifewith youI don’tstand achance.

Look at the Moon’s Shards by Amy Nocton We should not remember how the full moonbroke into so many piecesas she extended herself over the water.

God’s Plan We are all on the same path.Some of us will get there sooner than others.Don’t let your mind be troubled.You will be stuck in a mystery.For as...

Pearl Slings and Arrows of Outrageous Fortune The dollhouseis custom madeto look like...

My Children My poems are my children SeedsDeep inside me FertiliseDevelop EmergePart formedWholly dependentNoisy and vulnerable I...

The End Of The World. There is a theorythat the world will be set ablaze,ashes fluttering like snowflakes.Feverish prayers uttered in desperation,falling upon the deaf ears of the Gods.

Hand to Mouth As a picture of modern urban povertyit almost breaks your heart.Old Mother Hubbard’s bare boned cupboard,her dog drooling optimistically.What happened to Mr. Hubbard?Down the pub most...

What Am I Doing, Why Am I Here I dream I am playing a character whose actions I understand only as the story goes on. I am a powerful...

from"The Woman in an Imaginary Painting" The days have a roundness,morning and night, darknessand light, turn and return,the months, the seasons. In her kitchen, the yellowwall...