Elizabeth Dublin loves seasonal poetry. Jack-o’lantern Love By Elizabeth Dublin she was too pretty too cultured too exotic for his worn life with its patched linen spilled-ink pages second-hand second shot but under the harvest moon her midnight eyes shone with lunatic light her smile slipped down jagged her core turned hollow she left him […]
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City Folk, Arts Division
John Grey, writing on community. City Folk, Arts Division By John Grey So here we are, myself and more than two million of my brethren. We live in cities. We answer to roads and traffic, stores and high-rises, the constant crush with others like ourselves. I breathe in brick and glass and steel before I […]
A Disturbance
James G Piatt connects us to the natural world. A Disturbance By James G Piatt The burnt willow trees On the smoldering edge Of the lazy stagnant brook, Bend to the wind line an Anxious crowd of people Waiting for the night train: I watch in silence feeling a Disturbance in the earth, I turn […]
Silly Sammy
More fun with verse by Paul Goldberg. Silly Sammy By Paul Goldberg Silly Sammy sat in her chair afraid to move out of plain fear. Afraid of what the day would bring she made a decision not to do anything. Afraid of good fortune for fear of its loss, afraid of ill tidings for fear […]
Dear Diane (Letter 3)
Another in the series of Bobbie Troy’s Dear Diane poems. Dear Diane (Letter 3) By Bobbie Troy geography separates us you in the wild west dodging bullets and lost souls me in the east near the nation’s corrupt capital and both of us trying to find our way like everyone else but being luckier than […]
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