Molly Frederick’s most recent poem to appear here was “Winter Bliss” (December 2017) Winter Shamans By Molly Frederick Nearly a foot of snow has fallen, filling empty places, and wrapping the woods with wool. Six young hemlocks, clustered in a curve, soon repose under the weight of so much snow. Dark arms, upswept hands and […]
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Ars Poetica for Horizons of Earth and Sky
Ars Poetica for Horizons of Earth and Sky By Shirley Jones-Luke We can’t go beyond my view bug-eyed skewers, slits of sight on the edge of air, I can almost see the line this existence lives in the atmosphere that’s why when we fall, we fall hard through layers of clouds, blanketing […]
I am left to different brush and palette
John J. McKenna’s most recent poem to appear here was “Shadow Keeper” (October 2017) I am left to different brush and palette By John J. McKenna I can neither sing nor music play nor paint I. If I could sing I would climb up and perch alongside the feathered ones who greet great morning of […]
At the Super Market
Carole Towers lives and writes in St. Augustine, Florida. At the Super Market By Carole Towers all over your red blouse fear and the purple skirt and your mother looking at you furtively all the time as your clothes swayed on your bones so delicate like green branches on a birch tree or stalks of […]
Therapy
Nancy Scott McBride’s most recent poem to appear here was “Making Music, Not War” (December 2017) Therapy For Ann Tate By Nancy Scott McBride How did it happen, the breakdown? Did it tip-toe in like a thief in the night to quietly steal away the best parts of her? Or did it blow in like […]
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