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Just Go Sailing Out There

01.08.14 Posted in today's words by

Dee Thompson’s most recent poem to appear here was Devotion (July 2013). Just Go Sailing Out There By Dee Thompson I put my hands on your chest each night and pray as if intoning those words keeps you safe. I like that you’re back to your old self, I say. It will last half a […]


As Tulips Dance and Sway

01.07.14 Posted in today's words by

Linda Sue Grimes has published poems in many literary journals, including Sonoma Mandala, Rattle, and The Bellingham Review. She has published 3 books of poems: Singing in the Silence, Command Performance, and Turtle Woman & Other Poems. Linda completed her PhD in literature at Ball State University, where she also served as assistant professor of […]


Hansel in Darkness

01.06.14 Posted in today's words by

Addy Robinson McCulloch is a freelance writer and editor whose clients include Pearson Education and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Her work has appeared in publications such as Redheaded Stepchild, 234, The Iodine Review, What MattersĀ (an anthology of poetry from Jacar Press), and Get Out of My Crotch: 21 Writers Respond to America’s War on Women’s Rights […]


Tornado

01.05.14 Posted in today's words by

Jean McLeod shows us the force of nature. Tornado By Jean McLeod No one expected betrayal before noon when supple air gave way to the metallic taste of an unleashed jinn who sparked fireworks from transformers and ran amok snapping trees one after the next until sound volleyed down the valley. Sharp slaps of wind […]


Lapse

01.04.14 Posted in today's words by

Cheryl A Van Beek’s most recent poem to appear here was Void (December 2013). Lapse Cheryl A Van Beek She used to lie awake at night imagining the names of her children and what they’d look like. Never did have any. From one end of her porch, the shrub never looks that tall. But whenever […]


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