PYRE by Dee Allen
GEORGIA PINE
Termites have chewedAt the wood and bark.Too many tiny teethHad their way withThe pine tree's structure.Its coniferous body grewWeak, susceptible to disease, brittleAs the yearsAnd the stormsQuickly coast by.Is it too lateTo be...
DISCUSSING BOY PROBLEMS WITH JFK IN OUR BUNK BEDS AT SUMMER CAMP by Vanessa...
The Migration (Stepping Stones in a Cangshan Mountain Grotto)
1
Last night was a dream of you
crowned by daisies.
The European and the beautiful
The Greek gods.
Of course, you weren’t there when
the sun blared
DONG
, and the great bell...
IN THE WIND by John Drudge
In the Wind
Over the ridgeWhere we came of ageWhere we saw the endOf forgivenessAnd the slanted windScratching tracksAcross backsOf forlorn beastsWhere we graspedAt strawsAcross nighttime starsAnd wept for the sorrowOf every tomorrowIn the wind
A...
Torquay Summer 2023 by Julia Vaughan
Torquay Summer 2023
Summer Twenty-Twenty Three is bigSo many peopleParked cars wiltingScorching hot, glinting windscreensTowels, chairs and boogie boardsDogs and Eskies
Not many hatsUV Index is Extreme
Bikinis are tinyG-Strings minisculeAbundance of fleshBottoms bouncingSupremely confident
Acceptable on the...
A LULLABY FOR HOME by Dibyasree Nandy
A Lullaby For Home
The floating white fire in the night sky dimsAn outline looms, is golden-hewnAcross the crag, beyond the cloudsOur home seen in the horizon.
It’s no mere delf, a realm at the hilly...
UNDER THE SUN by Robert Funderburk
Wives of Nightfall
We are theWives of nightfallMaidens of the dark
Our lips smooth as oilFeather-soft voicesSpeaking words of lustRobed in garments ofLove
Our prey who returnNight upon nightSeem somehow less humanTheir bodies shrinkingTheir eyes unseeingClouded by...
WHAT IT CAME TO by Peter Cashorali
What It Came To
I never thought it would come to thisWhen I drove across town to get more cocaineOr watched the bulldozer fill in the graveOr played in the waves with my bucket and...
RAM by Debendra LalTranslated from the Odia by Pitambar Naik
Whether or not Ram was thereI don’t know. Whether or notRam would come one day,that also I don't know. But then,the only thing I know is thatthere’s one Ram Lalthere’s one Ram Prasadthere’s one...
WHERE ARE YOU GOING by Dennis Williams
Where are you going?
Where are you going?So late at nightIt’s way past bedtimeIt’s long past midnight
Are you running from some turmoil?Did you see a terrible fight?What causes you to be out?Or to take this...
FOREVER by Adelaide B. Shaw
A Lover’s Song
come to mefor comfort and for warmthcome to me for lovefor friendship and for trustfor understanding and for care
come to me for lovefor sunlit days and star filled nightsfor laughter and for...