Laura Zucca-Scott’s most recent poem to appear here was “Like Old Sailors” (September 2016) Hidden Heroes By Laura Zucca-Scott Cold Sunday afternoons Autumn leaves under their feet Three boys walking to a soccer game Roughhousing the hurt away Friendship after the long war They ran from fear and losses They ran toward a future Made of […]
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Dawn
Dawn By Glesni Moeller Dark clouds stroke the silvery moon It’s almost morn, dawn will come soon. The night, with all its darkness, gone The nightmare hours will soon be done. A rustle here, a birdsong there The dawn chorus soon fills the air. The break of day, a bewitching time The burning sun, it […]
A Man on Puget Sound
Ilona Martonfi’s most recent poem to appear here was “Die Fledermaus (the bat)” (August 2016) A Man on Puget Sound By Ilona Martonfi Mártonfi József June 20, 1948 – June 4, 2015 Unkempt dune sand shuttling the voiceless elegy of lament that I want more. Little brother Joe barefoot in marram grasses singing the lost love your […]
Bled Out
Gary Priest’s most recent poem to appear here was “Fresh Red Paint” (August 2016) Bled Out By Gary Priest The sun sinks like a scuttled ship. A moment shared with you, as precious and desperate as that last cigarette before quitting, again. The taste torments us. Lips with only goodbye left. Tongues that stopped making sense, […]
Contemplating Gainsborough’s Blue Boy
Frieda Landau’s most recent poem to appear here was “The Beginning of Forever” (August 2016) Contemplating Gainsborough’s Blue Boy By Frieda Landau Little Boy Blue . . . so safe and snug, wrapped in the smug convention that hides the fetid stench of depredation and despair.
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