Patrick Stevens’ most recent poem to appear here was A Brief Word About Butterflies (December 2013). Dorothy Burgess By Patrick Stevens Her unpolished nails would trace S-curves on my six-year-old back, my head buried in the shoulder of her chamomile blouse. She led a life of other lives, quiet, transfixed by biography as though she […]
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Daisies
A new poem by Clinton Van Inman Daisies By Clinton Van Inman Too real to touch Those blue roses That lie across The divided line Too perfect and Always out of reach For dirty hands So I picked you A bunch of wild Daisies instead.
The Grateful Dead
A tale from Marc Carver. The Grateful Dead By Marc Carver I asked the woman in the pub to move me, tell me something real. She told me about her boyfriend or brother who hung himself in a shed. I guess I was not too moved. Five minutes later I was walking up the road […]
Ripples in Time
Speculation in the form of poetry by Julie Ellinger Hunt. Ripples in Time By Julie Ellinger Hunt We are not carbon copies of our parents or random genetic consequences. We are recycled. Bits of ourselves reused. Repurposed from someone less suited but just as wise. Their direction always pointed correctly but their timing off, their […]
The tall glass towers
Jeremy Nathan Marks’ poem The Way of Bear appeared here in April 2013. The tall glass towers By Jeremy Nathan Marks The tall glass towers are perhaps closer to me than the miles of dairy farms with British names The downtown streets with their many languages feel more like kin than the hills and lakes […]
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