The Dreamer By Dominic Knighten I’ve dreamed on steps shared by many. Porches slept on by few. Seats occupied by peers, spanned by time. I’ve dreamed on beaches where the sun never sets. Swings forever moved by the wind. Casting stones with force. Skipping for eternity. I’ve dreamed on nights before cafeteria meals. When connections […]
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V. Mare Australe
Marie Lecrivain’s most recent poem to appear here was “Vitriol” (February 2014). V. Mare Australe By Marie Lecrivain This is where I come , when I don’t want to remember who you are, or what you did to me. This is where I find the cold heart that exists beneath your alabaster flesh, the precise icy […]
Return Trip
Hadley Hury’s most recent poem to appear here was “Screens” (August 2016) Return Trip By Hadley Hury When you spoke in your sleep I looked over your shoulder and the red digits showed 1:30 a.m. “Here,” you had said—softly but quite distinctly, as though in conversation, and evidently driving— “This is the road to my grandparents’ […]
In Still Waters
In Still Waters By E.V. Wyler In still waters, the false logs slide, closing in on the calm lakeside. Beware! Bucolic bliss betrays the unwitting wader who strays where torpedoes of death reside! Through the surface’s underside the gleeful alligators glide towards the innocent one who plays in still waters. A lone splash . . […]
The Transcendental Mariner
Gregory Gunn’s most recent poem to appear here was “Ethereal Morning Awakening” (November 2013) The Transcendental Mariner By Gregory Gunn Engulfed by the hard horizon, he fully indicated his ensuing inclination to the void, his southful fate, his peculiar post meridians, and long-winded disrepair to the elements as if an ancient parable reversed an obstinate retrograde […]
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