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...
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...
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...
NAKED IN DREAMS by Michael Eaton
Parting Is Sweet Sorrow
she leftanddidn’t leavemuch of herself—a blond hairdropped without care,frayed golden threadon a worn and stained carpet,a cup of coffee,half-filled, unstirred,and a smell lingeringon the morning sheetslike a winter fog lying lightlyover...
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...
MY FIRST PET by Duane Anderson
The Paper Trail
I am not competing for a place in history.My name was listed in the newspaperafter being born to let everyone know I had arrived,then report cards came along,rating me from a F...
EMPEROR’S CONCERTO by Richard Weaver
Emperor’s Concerto, Ocean Springs MS, 1943
My blackened windows are part of the coastalwar defense, or so I’ve been told. Even so,this is no room for sleep. Beethoven’s violins race
through the open door of night...
SOFT, DEAD LEAF by Winslow MacDonald
I. Soft, Dead Leaf
The night that you killed yourselfI walked down to the clearing whereAs boysWe had built a settlement,As pioneers we cleared the trees,And when the land gasped outWe leaned logs against bouldersAnd...