R Martin Basden gives us something to think about. A Likeness By R Martin Basden From a distance I am the familiar stranger often seen at this crossroads holding a scribbled sign you cannot read you need not read to understand Close your window when I approach check the doors locked shuffle the contents of […]
It's just poetry, it won't bite
Rebus
Jean McLeod writes delectable poems. In many varieties. Rebus By Jean McLeod Insight fades from a mind skimmed of imagination beneath bloodless bones under the discouraged droop of loosed skin. Rictus-painted lips beatified once by love and laughter too ripe, now, like fruit on the verge. As words seep away she holds rigid hope that […]
#15
Another in Elizabeth Akin Stelling’s series of prose poems. Look for news about a book of these poems … soon! #15 By Elizabeth Akin Stelling Small brown hands began mixing flour and water for tortillas in an old wooden bowl as the woman explained in Spanglish to my mother, who was sharing too much information […]
Waiting for the words to come
Christopher Roe writes about inspiration. What inspires you? Write about it. Waiting for the words to come By Christopher Roe Wrapped in the cold, wet, gray day a focused sadness descends upon a lone figure sitting separate from the crowd on an island of thought. And he lets his mind drift through the music hanging […]
After all these years, Dorothy still thinks about the Tin Man
Julia Klatt Singer’s poem is one to fall in love with. After all these years, Dorothy still thinks about the Tin Man By Julia Klatt Singer She thinks about what it sounds like inside of him, her hollow man, when he isn’t sleep-walking, rattling about the gray-lit house, thinking about how to fix this, how […]
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