Jose Trejo lives and writes in Baldwin Park, California. Winters Breeze By Jose Trejo Red ochre sky lightning in the eyes. Time doesn’t elapse the same: now its Matlactli Cozcacuauhtli Izcalli Ome Tochtli The pen scars what you’re thinking. Tonalpohualli Ten means you have reached clairvoyance: Aguila de Collar is reach old-age/sage Xolotl el gemelo […]
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The Fall
Nels Hanson’s most recent poem to appear here was “Tour” (January 2018) The Fall By Nels Hanson As the young lips and tongue, now slight pressure of bright teeth bring the President to crisis thrown away in rumpled tissue in the Oval Office his decent second in command loses easy race, doomed Iraq explodes in […]
Smashville
Gary Duehr’s most recent poem to appear here was “The Morning After” (January 2018) Smashville By Gary Duehr Welcome to ‘Murica, welcome to Smashville. Stay as long as you like, long as you got the cash, pal. Need a piercing? a side of brisket? Tattooo, wound care, orthopedics? Is it A hookah bar you seek, […]
Confession
Charlene James-Duguid’s most recent poem to appear here was “All I Can Thank You With Is Words” (January 2018) Confession By Charlene James-Duguid My grandmother, who used her little scale To weigh each meal during Lent, Would not know what to make of it. ‘What, no numbers, no sobbing, No penance of a hundred rosaries […]
That Morning
Thomas Locicero’s most recent poem to appear here was “How We Learned to be Men” (January 2018). That Morning for Lisa By Thomas Locicero She was quick to solemnize her announcement without considering the consequences. Now the cheerful words of her pronouncement prove to riddle and suspend her senses. Her waist as small as a […]
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