Contributor Series 10: Silken Rags Plumage By Monica Crumback first the pain but then the down, spun sweet in silken rings brown as autumn baby girl, the finest of my things Monica Crumback’s most recent poem to appear here was A Treat? (August 2011).
It's just poetry, it won't bite
Contributor Series 10: Silken Rags, White Masks
Contributor Series 10: Silken Rags White Masks By Nicole Poulain Garcia Funny how these things Come in gold, or silver trimming When we all know–at least those who are honest That all of it is for show Just flash and gleam. Sure, it must be the high life, It must be all it’s chopped up […]
Contributor Series 10: Silken Rags, Rugged vs Pretty
Contributor Series 10: Silken Rags Rugged vs Pretty By Babatunde Lamidi Got a call one morning from guess who? Pretty Inviting me for a party Turned it down like a goalkeeper Who had just parried a ball to the left corner A room filled with men and women Ladies and gentlemen dressed in a manner […]
Contributor Series 10: Silken Rags, Dress Well
Contributor Series 10: Silken Rags Dress Well By Murray Dunlap To live in hell Wearing bigger clothing than you used to Unhappy with ANY occasion To limp in an odd fashion Feeling underdressed at all times But to embrace an old saying “Time heals all wounds.” And dress normally again And to feel the smile […]
Contributor Series 10: Silken Rags, The Violence of the Violins
Contributor Series 10: Silken Rags The Violence of the Violins By Paul Hostovsky It was in them, they would say. It was what they were, what they did. It was part of them, carved into them like an F hole, like a clef tattooed onto a biceps. And there was nothing you could say or […]
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