Animesh Das lives and writes in Purulia, West Bengal, India. A Lesbian’s Reply By Animesh Das Just because I love my own kind, You have tagged me ‘immoral’. One who doesn’t even have the right to live. Yes I am immoral. If it is wrong to love someone truly, Then yes I am immoral. But […]
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Villanelle for our Time
Max Reif’s most recent poem to appear here was “You Can’t Force the Life-Force to Pose for a Photo” (August 2018). Villanelle for our Time By Max Reif We’ve come too far to turn around. Liberty flows in our blood. No autocrat can beat us down. Far from a brutish world we’ve grown. The memory […]
Layers of real life
Charlene James-Duguid’s most recent poem to appear here was “A Tale from the Old West” (Septemer 2018). Layers of real life Intrude on false happiness. Euphoria gone. Life ends with whimper. Death panels like dry leaves fly. Fog preempts all light. Salvage a laugh or Two, perhaps three or four, more, Like a clover’s bloom. […]
Midst of Being
Molly Frederick’s most recent poem to appear here was “The Simplest Thing” (August 2018). Midst of Being By Molly Frederick I went out looking for clouds—transfixed by lightness in the sky on a summer day— and was captured by a tree. River Birch, the only tree I’ve ever seen that always seems to be changing clothes. Rolls and […]
Taking Notice
Howard F. Stein’s most recent poem to appear here was “Unanswered Questions” (September 2018). Taking Notice By Howard F. Stein I sat on my porch in a fierce summer storm, beneath the shelter of wide eaves. Vertical bullets of rain, razor lightning bolts, explosive thunder, all so familiar—every storm I had known over a lifetime […]
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